Link Audit Service

Identify toxic backlinks, over-optimised anchors, and profile gaps before they cost you rankings, or before you scale into them.

Links analysed per auditUp to 500k
Delivery time3–7 days
Disavow file includedYes

Your backlink profile is both your biggest ranking asset and your biggest ranking liability. A link audit is essential before any new link building campaign, after a Google algorithm update drops your rankings, or if you've purchased a domain and inherited an unknown link history. Our link audit service gives you a complete, expert-reviewed picture of your backlink profile: toxic links identified and disavowed, anchor text distribution analysed, authority gaps mapped, and a clear roadmap for what to build next.

What's included

Everything in our Link Audit Service

Every campaign is hands-on from start to finish, no outsourcing, no automated link-blasting.

  • Full backlink profile export and analysis (Ahrefs, Majestic, GSC cross-referenced)
  • Toxic and spammy link identification with confidence scoring
  • Google-ready disavow file for all confirmed toxic links
  • Anchor text distribution analysis and over-optimisation flag
  • Referring domain quality scoring (spam score, DR, traffic)
  • Link velocity analysis, natural vs. unnatural growth patterns
  • Competitor link profile benchmarking
  • Link building roadmap based on profile gaps
The process

How our Link Audit Service works

01

Data collection

We pull your full backlink profile from Ahrefs, Majestic, and Google Search Console, cross-referencing all three for maximum coverage. No single tool captures everything.

02

Toxic link identification

Our analysts review every referring domain against 30+ quality signals (spam score, site category, link placement type, traffic, and historical penalty associations) to identify links that need disavowing.

03

Anchor & profile analysis

We map your anchor text distribution against safe industry benchmarks. Over-optimised exact-match anchor profiles are one of the most common causes of Penguin-related ranking suppression.

04

Report & disavow delivery

You receive a full audit report with every finding, the confidence score for each toxic link, and a Google-ready disavow file you can upload directly to Search Console.

Why Dot Mirror

Why clients choose our team

We've built hundreds of campaigns across every niche. Quality, transparency, and results are the only metrics we care about.
01

Three-tool cross-referencing

No single backlink database is complete. We cross-reference Ahrefs, Majestic, and Google Search Console to build the most comprehensive picture of your real link profile.

02

Human review, not just algorithms

Automated toxic link scorers produce false positives that would have you disavowing good links. Our analysts manually review every flagged link before it goes in the disavow file.

03

Actionable disavow file

We don't just list toxic links. We produce a properly formatted disavow file ready for immediate submission to Google Search Console. Plug and play.

04

Roadmap for what to build next

Every link audit ends with a building roadmap, the types of links missing from your profile, the anchor gaps to fill, and the DR targets to prioritise next.

FAQ

Link Audit Service Questions

Not always, but it's advisable if your site has an unknown link history, has been penalised before, or was acquired from another owner. Building onto a toxic profile amplifies the problem.
It instructs Google to ignore specific backlinks when evaluating your site. Submitting a disavow file removes the negative ranking impact of toxic links without requiring you to get the links removed.
Yes. If you've received a manual action for unnatural links, identifying and disavowing the offending links is the first step toward reconsideration request submission.
Our standard audits cover up to 500k backlinks. For larger enterprise sites, contact us for a custom quote.
We can attempt link removal outreach for the most egregious toxic links. However, Google's disavow tool is the practical solution in most cases. Removal outreach has low success rates.
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Get started with Link Audit Service

Tell us your goals, budget, and target keywords. We'll put together a campaign tailored to your situation, and walk you through exactly what to expect.