---
title: "Backlink Analysis & Domain Rating"
description: "Check your backlink profile and Ahrefs Domain Rating, compare referring domains with your rivals, and find the links worth going after next."
url: "https://rankbuddy.io/features/backlink-analysis"
product: "RankBuddy"
category: "Research & Analysis"
---

# Backlink Analysis

Check your backlink profile and your Ahrefs Domain Rating, compare referring domains against the sites you compete with, and find the links worth going after next.

## Ask it like this

- Summarize my backlink profile
- Compare referring domains vs a competitor
- Check Ahrefs DR for my site and rivals

## What you get

### Domain Rating, straight from Ahrefs

The 0–100 authority score as Ahrefs publishes it, unmodified, plus a plain-language read on what that level of authority can realistically compete for.

### Who actually links to you

Referring domains and total backlinks, with the pattern behind them — whether your authority rests on a handful of strong links or a long tail of weak ones.

### The gap against your rivals

Sites that link to a competitor and not to you, which is the shortest list of realistic link targets anyone can hand you.

## How it works

1. **Connect your website** — One workspace per site. It crawls what you have, learns what the business does, and — if you connect Google Search Console — starts from your own measured performance rather than from market averages.
2. **Ask for the job** — Pick the skill or let Auto route it, and describe what you want in a sentence. It buys the data it needs from DataForSEO and Ahrefs instead of estimating it, and reads the live results for the terms in question.
3. **Review, then decide** — The findings land in chat and are saved to the project, so the next question builds on them. Nothing reaches your site unless you approve it — the only thing that can publish is an article, to a CMS you connected.

## Where the data comes from

- Ahrefs — Domain Rating
- DataForSEO — backlinks, referring domains

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the Domain Rating the real Ahrefs score?

Yes. It comes from Ahrefs and is passed through unchanged. It is not a substitute metric calculated in-house and rebadged.

### Do I need my own Ahrefs subscription?

No. The data is bought on your behalf and included in your plan. There is no separate vendor account to connect and no usage bill on top of the subscription.

### Can it tell me which links are hurting me?

It flags the patterns that usually signal a problem — bursts of links from unrelated domains, over-optimised anchor text, low-authority networks. Deciding to disavow is a judgement call it will support with evidence rather than make for you.

### Will it build links for me?

No. It finds and prioritises the opportunities; the outreach is yours. Nothing in RankBuddy contacts another site on your behalf.

## Related features

- [Keyword Research](https://rankbuddy.io/features/keyword-research) — Real search volumes, ranked by opportunity.
- [Competitor Analysis](https://rankbuddy.io/features/competitor-analysis) — See who ranks, and exactly why.
- [SEO Strategy](https://rankbuddy.io/features/seo-strategy) — One plan, in the order it should happen.
- [Technical SEO Audit](https://rankbuddy.io/features/technical-seo-audit) — Crawl, indexing and a prioritized fix list.
- [On-Page SEO](https://rankbuddy.io/features/on-page-seo) — Rewrite one page to win one keyword.
- [Internal Linking](https://rankbuddy.io/features/internal-linking) — Find orphan pages, place the missing links.

See every feature at https://rankbuddy.io/features, pricing at https://rankbuddy.io/pricing.