Internal Linking Auditor

Audit a brand's internal linking structure — sampling up to 50 URLs from the site (via sitemap if available, otherwise discovered from key nav and content pages), map the internal link graph, identify pillar and cluster pages, and diagnose structural issues including orphan pages, missing pillar-to-cluster and cluster-to-pillar links, thin internal link density, non-descriptive anchor text, broken internal links, and cross-topic contamination that dilutes topical signals. Produces a prioritized fix list with specific source-page → target-page link recommendations in context, not a generic "add more links" advisory. Use this skill whenever a user asks about internal linking, site architecture, topic clusters implementation, pillar pages, information architecture audit, siloing, link equity distribution, orphan pages, "why isn't Google finding this page," or when the Entity & Topical Authority Mapper has produced a topic tree but the brand's existing internal linking doesn't match it. Chains opportunistically with brand-kit.md (business type, services) and entity-topical-map.md (the canonical pillar/cluster structure to benchmark against). When a SearchAtlas MCP is connected, leverages SA tools (rank tracking, brand vault, GBP, OTTO, LLM Visibility) first before falling back to generic web search.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/internal-linking-auditor
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/internal-linking-auditor/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/internal-linking-auditor/SKILL.md

@misc{internal-linking-auditor-2026,
  author    = {search-atlas-group},
  title     = {Internal Linking Auditor [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/internal-linking-auditor/}
}