Rise to the Top of Search with an Unbeatable Backlink Strategy

Build authority with search engines and capture more organic traffic using our proven backlink workflow and trusted tools

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Get all 4 backlink tools
in 1 powerful toolkit

Backlink Audit

Keep your backlink profile 💯 with a regular audit of toxic, lost, and broken links. Track progress and stay on top of site health.

Backlink Analytics

Get detailed intel on your competitor's backlink strategy to create a stronger SEO presence and outrank them.

Backlink Gap

Quickly discover which websites link to your competitors but not to you—and find prime link building opportunities.

Link Building Tool

Easily facilitate link outreach and acquisition with our time-saving and seamless link building tool.

Follow this proven backlink
workflow to boost organic rankings

Step 1: Uncover your competitors' backlink strategy

Compare up to 5 website side by side and dig deep into what makes them rank

  • Assess their backlink profile size and see their built and lost links
  • Check their backlink-generating content to consider covering similar topics
  • Analyze anchor types and their texts to see associated topics
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Step 2: Find linking opportunities you missed

Run a quick backlink gap analysis to pinpoint high value websites who don't link to you (yet)

  • Get a complete list of referring domains that link to your top competitors
  • Filter this list to prioritize domains that link to specific competitors, but not to you
  • View notes from Google and Semrush to understand what may have impacted backlinks on a particular day
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Step 3: Save time acquiring backlinks

Run a full-scale outreach campaign from a seamless interface

  • Automatically get contact info from your list of target websites
  • Use the built-in workflow with Gmail and Google Search Console integration to manage the outreach process
  • Monitor your campaign progress over time with easy to understand reports
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Step 4: Keep your website healthy and SEO strong

Audit your backlink profile regularly to investigate suspicious links and maintain site health

  • Review each backlink’s quality, topic relevance, source URLs, IPs, mirror pages, anchor texts, and toxic scores
  • Track toxic links and act quickly to disavow them and avoid a search engine penalty
  • Get AI-powered notifications on unnatural and lost backlinks via Semrush Copilot AI assistant
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Get the world’s largest and fastest backlink database at your fingertips

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total backlinks

25B

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URLs crawled per day

1.6B

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referring domains

Semrush's backlink toolkit
has everything

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Find all
backlinks

of a domain, subdomain or URL and compare them in any combination

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Filter backlinks by type

text/image/form/frame, or follow/nofollow/sitewide and more advanced filters

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Build custom PDF reports with 11 widgets

new/lost links, backlink types, totals, and more

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50+ toxicity
markers

harmful environments, manipulative links, link networks, etc.

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Integration with GA4 and Search Console

for the most accurate data

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Integration with Gmail and Microsoft

to get site owners’ emails and ask for link removal if necessary

Don't let backlinking
be your SEO weak spot!

Make it your strength with the market's leading
backlink toolkit.