Backlink Profile Audit and Toxic Link Disavow

Conduct a complete audit of [WEBSITE URL]'s backlink profile and prepare a cleanup plan with a disavow file.

**Phase 1 — Data collection and analysis:**
Export the full backlink profile from Ahrefs, SEMrush, and Google Search Console. Analyze:
- Total referring domains and backlinks
- Distribution by DR: <10, 10-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60+
- Ratio of dofollow vs. nofollow vs. ugc vs. sponsored links
- Top 20 anchor texts (identify over-optimization)
- Geographic distribution of linking domains (excess links from irrelevant countries)
- Link acquisition velocity (abnormal spikes)

**Phase 2 — Toxic link identification:**
Classify each backlink using these criteria:
- 🔴 **Toxic (immediate disavow)**: PBNs, link farms, hacked websites, casino/pharma, reactivated expired domains
- 🟡 **Suspicious (investigate)**: Low-quality sites, generic directories, massive blogrolls, spam comments
- 🟢 **Healthy (keep)**: Editorial sites, brand mentions, legitimate guest posts, specialized directories

For each toxic/suspicious link, provide:
- Source URL and linked page
- Reason for classification
- Recommended action: contact webmaster (remove) or include in disavow

**Phase 3 — Disavow file:**
- Generate the disavow.txt file in the correct Google format
- Prioritize domain-level disavow (domain:) when the entire site is spam
- Use URL-level disavow when only one page is problematic
- Submission instructions for Google Search Console Disavow Tool

**Phase 4 — Ideal profile and recovery plan:**
- Define the ideal backlink profile for the [INDUSTRY] sector in [TARGET REGION]
- Healthy proportions: anchor text, dofollow/nofollow, DR distribution
- Healthy link acquisition plan for the next 6 months (to compensate for removed links)
- Monitoring: weekly alerts in Ahrefs for new toxic links

Deliverables: complete classification spreadsheet + disavow.txt file + recovery plan.