If you are familiar with SEO then you know why a backlink audit is very important. There is every tendency that you can have certain restrictions on your site when Google penalizes your blog. So, running a backlink audit helps you identify opportunities for improvements and to avoid being penalized.
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When you are running an audit you are basically trying to root out the spammy or low-quality links from your site to protect your site authority and reputation.
Backlink Audit for LeoGlossary
If we wanted to run an audit for Leoglossay, we would run checks for blogs or websites pointing to us. Using SEO-related tools like Semrush, we could track those sites or maybe Hive blog posts that the author linked back to the glossary.
If we were running a normal web 2 blog, there are various actions that we could take. We could find those links and evaluate them for certain influences that they have on the ranking credibility of our glossary.
We would have the auditing tool reveal how many of those links are suspicious, high, or low-analyzed backlinks, especially those with poor link-building strategy or negative SEO.
Once we can identify all of these links that are hurting us, we would try to disallow them or get rid of them completely using the available tools and methods.
But we do not have these tools to work with at the moment. So we cannot fight the battle of backlink auditing in favor of the glossary. However, there is something the community can help us do.
Improve the quality of posts.
One of the ways the community can help with manual link auditing is by improving the quality of the posts that links back to us. This is an important aspect of content marketing and SEO improvement strategy. Content is king, they say, and it applies to our blockchain if we truly desire to rank organically.
By evaluating the kind of posts we publish and linking back to the glossary, we will rest assured that the backlinks that the glossary is getting from the community are coming from authentic and high-quality posts that are related to the glossary.
Use correct anchor texts
Yesterday, I explained how each of us has employed the use of anchor text on our posts in one way or the other. Today, I would want to encourage you to learn the proper ways to use anchor text as this is important to Google. And right now, it's important to the glossary too.
Therefore, use proper methods to insert those hyperlinks that link back to the glossary. Understand how to use a variety of link-building methods in your post so you can help us improve our SEO ranking.
Try not to make your link anchoring look spammy. Utilize different methods when you are building links so we can appear as an authority in those discussions you share on your blog.
Removing low-quality links
Right now, the glossary team is working on improving each available link in the glossary. We are working together to create super pages and upgrade those terms. Therefore, in a few years, the links you used on your post would be updated and you wouldn't have to worry that you have low-quality links.
All you have to do is keep adding the links to your post but employ the proper usage.
Conclusion
As mentioned above, if we had the needed SEO tools to utilize and ran our auditing by ourselves we would definitely do it. But we don't. This is why we are appealing to the community to help checkmate those link-building processes and do so by creating good posts, using the right text anchoring methods, and leaving the low-quality link updating to us.