{"id":2004724,"date":"2020-03-22T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/?p=2004724"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:20:21","slug":"link-building-semrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/link-building-semrush\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Backlinks? &#8211; 11 Most Asked Backlink Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The need for high-quality backlink for a site&#8217;s reputation is essential for a website to thrive online and stay in the digital competition.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I will dive into some of the most frequently asked questions regarding backlinks and show how some of these questions can be answered using <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/go\/semrush14\">SEMrush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/go\/semrush14\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#2def37;border-color:#24c02c;border-radius:12px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 30px;font-size:22px;line-height:44px;border-color:#6cf473;border-radius:12px;text-shadow:0px 2px 0px #000000\"> SEMrush &#8211; Get 14 Days Free Trial &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<h2>What is domain authority and how does domain authority help in SEO?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Domain authority is how well a domain will perform in search engine rankings or best put, it\u2019s the website\u2019s reputation in providing the most relative content to a specific keyword. Domain authority, which was developed by Moz, is calculated by a lot of factors including the total number of inbound links or also called backlinks or also called inbound links.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEMrush uses Authority Score in measuring a website\u2019s reputability.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authority Score is our compound domain score that grades the overall quality of a website and tells you how impactful a backlink from a site can be for your SEO. The score is based on the following SEMrush data:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Backlink data including referring domains, follow and no follow links, and more<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organic search data including organic search traffic and keyword positions<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Website traffic data (monthly visits)<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the ways on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to check the domain Authority<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Score using SEMrush:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Backlink Analytics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In SEMrush dashboard, click Backlink Analytics under Link Building.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Type in a website URL and press Enter<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004739\" style=\"width: 1926px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004739\" class=\"wp-image-2004739 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1.png\" alt=\"How to check the domain Authority Score using SEMrush\" width=\"1916\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1.png 1916w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-1030x488.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-1536x728.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-1500x711.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1-1-705x334.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1916px) 100vw, 1916px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to check the domain Authority Score using SEMrush<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. You will be given a quick overview of the sites Authority score along with referral domains, number of backlinks and many more<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004725\" style=\"width: 1915px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004725\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004725\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.png\" alt=\"Quick overview of the sites Authority score\" width=\"1905\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2.png 1905w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-1030x487.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-1536x726.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-1500x709.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2-705x333.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1905px) 100vw, 1905px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick overview of the sites Authority score<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Moreover, you can identify Authority Scores of multiple websites using SEMrush\u2019s Bulk Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In SEMrush dashboard, click Bulk Analysis under Link Building.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Type in multiple website URLs you wish to analyze. You can enter up to 200 URLs\/domains, one per line<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004726\" style=\"width: 1927px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004726\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004726\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.png\" alt=\"Identify Authority Scores of multiple websites using SEMrush\u2019s Bulk Analysis\" width=\"1917\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3.png 1917w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-1030x492.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-1536x733.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-1500x716.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3-705x337.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1917px) 100vw, 1917px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Identify Authority Scores of multiple websites using SEMrush\u2019s Bulk Analysis<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>What is page authority in SEO?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While domain authority measures the reputation of a domain or its subdomains, Page authority (another score developed by Moz) refers to the authoritative strength of a single page and how well it will rank in search engine result pages (SERP). Similar to Domain Authority, Page Authority is measured by a page\u2019s reputability through backlinks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is how to check Page Authority of a website using SEMrush:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Backlink Analytics dashboard, click Backlinks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2004728\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1911\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4.png 1911w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-1030x495.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-1536x739.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-1500x721.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/4-705x339.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. You will then be able to see each of the site pages\u2019 score as measured by SEMrush<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004729\" style=\"width: 1925px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004729\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5.png\" alt=\"Site page score in SEMRUSH\" width=\"1915\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5.png 1915w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-1030x492.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-1536x734.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-1500x717.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/5-705x337.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1915px) 100vw, 1915px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site page score in SEMRUSH<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>What are high authority backlinks and what is the importance of backlinks in SEO?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A backlink is a link created when one website links to another. It\u2019s how many other websites vouched for your page\u2019s reliability and content quality. If many other websites link to your specific page or site domain or the more sites vouches for your domain\/page, the more likely Google will acknowledge your site to be as a reliable and worthy source &#8211; giving you higher authority and chance to be ranked well in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).\u00a0 The more high-quality inbound links or backlinks a website has, the higher its domain authority is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is an example of backlinks?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my recent blog post &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-rocket-review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WP Rocket Review \u2013 Great WordPress Site Speed Plugin!<\/span><\/a>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I\u2019ve linked a couple of other websites. See the image below.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004730\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004730\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004730\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6.png\" alt=\"Examples of a backlink\" width=\"1910\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6.png 1910w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-1030x533.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-1536x795.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-1500x776.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/6-705x365.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Examples of a backlink<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since those 3 are linked to their respective websites, this is a \u201cbacklink\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How to increase domain authority with backlinks and how to find bad backlinks<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is always a good practice to identify and remove backlinks from your site. If you have a significant number of bad links, there\u2019s a big chance that you will be algorithmically downgraded by Google or get penalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good thing SEMrush has a Backlink Audit that can help you improve your website\u2019s SEO by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewing all the links within your site<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyze whether there are any bad links or suspicious link and identify its level of toxicity\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send out a warning to the website owner<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And immediately file a request to Google to ignore your toxic backlinks (Delete to disavow)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other options include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delete to Remove<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send the backlink removal requests to domain owners from the Remove tab. We will automatically provide you with the domain owner\u2019s contact info.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep to Whitelist<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you know for sure that the link is not harmful at all, use the Keep button.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to run a Backlink Audit on a site<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the SEMrush dashboard, click Backlink Audit<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the site you wish to analyze. Alternatively, you can add a new site to analyze by clicking NEW BACKLINK AUDIT found in the upper right-hand side of the page<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004734\" style=\"width: 1915px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004734\" class=\"wp-image-2004734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png\" alt=\"Domains by Toxic Score\" width=\"1905\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png 1905w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1030x509.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1536x759.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1500x741.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-705x348.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1905px) 100vw, 1905px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">how to run a Backlink Audit on a site<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEMrush will provide you an overview of your backlink profile<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall Toxic Score &#8211; the general backlink analysis based on the total number of bad links and level of its toxicity\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004732\" style=\"width: 1921px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004732\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004732\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8.png\" alt=\"Overall Toxic Score in SEMRUSH\" width=\"1911\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8.png 1911w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-1030x513.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-1536x764.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-1500x746.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/8-705x351.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overall Toxic Score in SEMRUSH<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>What is the referring domain in SEO?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Referring domains<\/span> &#8211; domains that link back to our site <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shows you the number of new, lost and broken referring domains.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004733\" style=\"width: 1917px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004733\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004733\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9.png\" alt=\"Referring Domain\" width=\"1907\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9.png 1907w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-1030x513.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-1536x764.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-1500x746.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/9-705x351.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1907px) 100vw, 1907px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referring Domain<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Domains by Toxic Score<\/span> &#8211; shows the distribution of all analyzed domains according to their toxic level<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004734\" style=\"width: 1915px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004734\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004734\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png\" alt=\"Domains by Toxic Score\" width=\"1905\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10.png 1905w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1030x509.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1536x759.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-1500x741.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10-705x348.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1905px) 100vw, 1905px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domains by Toxic Score<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can then take a deeper look and take suitable actions on these links. Whether you wish to keep, delete to disavow or delete remove the link(s)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004735\" style=\"width: 1916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004735\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11.png\" alt=\"How to run a Backlink Audit on a site\" width=\"1906\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11.png 1906w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-1030x512.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-1536x763.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-1500x745.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/11-705x350.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1906px) 100vw, 1906px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to run a Backlink Audit on a site<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>What is link building in SEO?<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link building is about a website-to-website relationship. It\u2019s the process of securing a link on their site\/page to your site\/page. There is no best link building strategy as there a lot of factors on how to conduct it but one thing\u2019s for sure &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">links are essential<\/span> to the existence of one\u2019s website and this is h<\/span>ow link building helps SEO.<\/p>\n<h3>How to do link building for a website?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a beginner with SEO, SEMrush offers such a user-friendly tool called <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semrush.com\/link_building\/?ref=15155900&amp;refer_source=&amp;utm_source=berush&amp;utm_medium=promo&amp;utm_campaign=link_other\">Link Building Tool<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This tool guides you on how to increase backlinks for the website through providing you lists of opportunities depending on your target keywords and a user-friendly interface to start running a link building SEO plan that will suit your niche.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What is the competitor&#8217;s backlink analysis?<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to do a link building strategy but do not know where and how to start, you can start by checking your competitors&#8217; website. Checking out the competition is essential in every business. You can technically gather wealthy insights through competitor backlink analysis &#8211; from knowing what they do well to areas where they\u2019re falling short so you can eventually and ideally outperform them.<\/p>\n<h4>How to check competitors&#8217; backlinks?<\/h4>\n<p>Of course, SEMrush to the rescue here. They&#8217;ve built up an easy and user-friendly tool that generates your competitor&#8217;s backlink reports for you.<\/p>\n<p>Go to Backlink Analysis &gt; Competitors<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004740\" style=\"width: 1912px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004740\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15.png\" alt=\"Competitor backlink analysis\" width=\"1902\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15.png 1902w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-1030x460.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-768x343.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-1536x686.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-1500x670.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/15-705x315.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1902px) 100vw, 1902px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitor backlink analysis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2. In the dashboard, you will get:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004741\" style=\"width: 1929px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2004741\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004741\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16.png\" alt=\"competitor backlink analysis overview\" width=\"1919\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16.png 1919w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-1030x462.png 1030w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-768x344.png 768w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-1536x688.png 1536w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-1500x672.png 1500w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/16-705x316.png 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2004741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">competitor backlink analysis overview<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Your top competitors with similar backlink profile to your website<\/li>\n<li>Your top competitor&#8217;s authority score\n<ul>\n<li>overall quality and influence of the website in the SEO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Level of competition\n<ul>\n<li>measured by the number of backlinks of the site and the number of backlinks you have in common<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Common Referring Domains\n<ul>\n<li>number of referring domains that linked back to both your website and your competition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Total number of referring domains\n<ul>\n<li>total number of domains that links to the given site or domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Backlinks\n<ul>\n<li>total number of backlinks of the given site or domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using these data, you can analyze their most popular content have based on the pages that are indexed; through the referring domains, you will be able to identify their current partnerships that you may not have and may want to do an outreach campaign to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The need for high-quality backlink for a site&#8217;s reputation is essential for a website to thrive online and stay in the digital competition. 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