How To Conduct A Link Audit

In the comments section of my last column , someone asked me about link audits, and after looking around to see if I could find a good resource to point her to, I didn’t find anything that was exactly what I was looking for. I found loads of great pieces on SEO audits but not that much specific to links. (Maybe that particular SERP was affected by the latest Google update.) One reason that I’ve not written much about link audits is that it’s a process that’s very fluid for me. I love trying out new tools and there are always algorithm updates that favor something more than something else. One month I’ll be digging into money anchors for a client, the next month I might be looking for bad link neighborhoods. I let a few things influence how I start the process: Has the site been penalized, deindexed, or seen a decrease in rankings and/or traffic? Has a previously unknown co...

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