backlink-analyzer

Use when the user asks to "analyze backlinks", "check link profile", "find toxic links", "link building opportunities", "off-page SEO", "who links to me", "I have spammy links", "how do I get more backlinks", or "disavow links". Analyzes backlink profiles to understand link authority, identify toxic links, discover link building opportunities, and monitor competitor link acquisition. Essential for off-page SEO strategy. For internal link analysis, see internal-linking-optimizer. For competitor link profiles, see competitor-analysis.

Quality

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A thorough, actionable skill body with strong templates and a clear sequenced workflow plus validation checkpoints. Its main weakness is verbosity and overlap between inlined content and the provided reference files, which could be slimmed by deferring more detail to the references.

Suggestions

Trim the body by moving the full Link Quality Scoring Matrix, Toxic Link Identification Criteria, Link Building Strategy Matrix, and Outreach Best Practices into the existing reference files, leaving only concise pointers and the most essential thresholds inline.

Replace the '~~link database' / '~~SEO tool' placeholder syntax with concrete, executable connector guidance (or a clear single reference to CONNECTORS.md) so the data-source steps are directly actionable.

Add an explicit validate->fix->retry feedback loop for disavow file generation, since disavow is a partially destructive batch operation that warrants a confirmation checkpoint before the user submits it.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The ~600-line body leans verbose with many bracketed placeholder tables and matrices, and some frameworks (link quality scoring, outreach) are duplicated in the reference files; though the content is mostly purposeful rather than conceptual padding, it could be tightened.	3 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete copy-paste-ready output templates, weighted scoring matrices with thresholds, toxic-link criteria tables, and outreach subject-line formulas; the main gap is the placeholder connector syntax ('~~link database', '~~SEO tool') rather than executable integration steps.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clearly numbered 7-step analysis sequence is paired with an explicit Validation Checkpoints section covering input and output validation; full validate->fix->retry feedback loops are not spelled out, but checkpoints are present and disavow guidance includes caution.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is well-sectioned and points to two real one-level-deep reference files (link-quality-rubric.md, outreach-templates.md), though some of that reference material (quality matrix, outreach framework) is also inlined in the body, creating minor duplication.	4 / 5
	Total	15 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, well-structured description that concisely covers what the skill does, when to use it with natural trigger phrases, and how it differs from adjacent skills. Third-person voice is used correctly and there is no fluff.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain and lists multiple concrete actions — 'understand link authority, identify toxic links, discover link building opportunities, and monitor competitor link acquisition' — giving comprehensive coverage of what the skill does.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' ('Analyzes backlink profiles to understand link authority, identify toxic links...') and 'when' ('Use when the user asks to...') with concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Quoted natural user phrases like 'analyze backlinks', 'who links to me', 'I have spammy links', 'how do I get more backlinks', and 'disavow links' are things users would genuinely say, with good synonym coverage.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Clear off-page SEO/backlink niche with distinct triggers, plus explicit boundary disambiguation pointing to internal-linking-optimizer and competitor-analysis, minimizing conflict risk.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 Passed

Validation

81%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
skill_md_line_count	SKILL.md is long (640 lines); consider splitting into references/ and linking	Warning
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 26 suspicious	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: teeclaw/phorm-nft
Path: .agents/skills/backlink-analyzer/SKILL.md
Commit: 02adecb

Reviewed: ~8 hours ago

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