Off-Page SEO Audit

Off-page signals remain one of the strongest ranking factors, and one of the easiest to get badly wrong. Our off-page audit maps every referring domain pointing at your site, grades the quality of that profile, isolates anything that carries risk, and shows you exactly where your competitors are earning links that you are not.

What we examine

Every off-page seo audit in the plan works through this checklist. Nothing is skipped because it looked fine at a glance.

• Complete referring domain inventory with authority and topical relevance scoring
• Anchor text distribution — branded, exact match, partial and naked URL ratios
• Toxic and spam link detection, including link networks and paid footprints
• Historic link velocity, to spot unnatural spikes that predate you
• Lost link analysis — valuable links that have disappeared and can be reclaimed
• Broken backlinks pointing at 404 pages, which are recoverable authority
• Competitor link gap analysis against three rivals you nominate
• Link placement quality — editorial in-content versus footer, sidebar or directory
• Nofollow, sponsored and UGC attribute distribution
• Brand mentions that do not yet link to you
• Disavow file review, or a recommendation on whether you need one
• Referring domain overlap, showing sites linking to rivals but not to you

Problems we find most often

These are real patterns from audits we have delivered. If any of them sound plausible for your site, they are worth checking.

• A legacy disavow file suppressing links that are now perfectly healthy
• Sixty percent of anchor text being exact-match commercial terms — a clear manipulation pattern
• High authority links pointing at pages that were deleted in a site migration
• A cluster of paid directory links bought years earlier by a previous agency
• Competitors earning links from industry publications the client had never approached

What you receive

• A written section in your monthly audit report covering every checkpoint above
• Each issue scored by expected impact and implementation effort
• Evidence for every finding — screenshots, exports or reproducible URLs
• Step-by-step remediation instructions written for whoever will do the work
• A comparison against the previous month showing what your fixes moved
• Direct email access to the specialist who produced the section

How this fits the complete audit

This discipline is part of our audit plans rather than a standalone purchase, because findings in one area almost always explain symptoms in another. A ranking drop that looks like a content problem is frequently a crawl problem, and you only see that when the same team reviews both. Which plan includes it is set out on the pricing page — plans start at $29.99 per month, and the Professional plan at $101.99 covers all seven.