Link gap analysis that ends in assets, not a domain list

A standard intersect report answers a question you cannot act on. Twelve hundred domains link to three competitors and not to you, and nearly none of them will ever link to you, because the reason they linked was an event you were not present at. We run the intersect and then throw most of it away. What survives is sorted into three piles, and only two of them are work you can do. How the competitor set gets chosen: From SERP overlap on the queries that carry your revenue, not from the list of rivals your board recites. On a road freight engagement the real link competitors turned out to be two trade publications and a freight rate index, neither of which moves a pallet. Those are the pages taking the links your commercial pages want, and they are invisible if you start from a competitor list drawn on market share. Pile one, earned by a specific asset: For each, the exact URL, the number of referring domains that page earned rather than what the domain holds overall, the years those links arrived, and our read on whether the same thing works now. Most of it does not. A 2019 data study earned its links from a news cycle that no longer exists, and repeating it in 2026 gets you a press release nobody covers. We say which ones are dead and why, because the value of this pile is as much in what you skip as in what you build. Pile two, structural: The fastest pile in your sectors and the one nobody bothers to enumerate. Association member directories, ACK ČR and AČCKA for travel, ČESMAD Bohemia and equivalent freight bodies, CzechTourism and regional destination management pages, exhibitor listings from the trade fairs your sales team already attends, supplier and dealer locators, certification bodies, chamber of commerce entries, GDP and ISO registries. In every engagement we have run, a meaningful share of these are listings your company already qualifies for through memberships you already pay for, and simply never claimed. That is the part of this report that pays for itself first. Pile three, bought: Identified by footprint: the same publisher set appearing across three competitors, disclosure labels, publishers running a public rate card. This pile is in the report so you know what not to copy and roughly what your competitor's link count costs them to maintain each year. It is not an opportunity list and we do not present it as one. What this is not: A prospect list. We will not hand you a spreadsheet of domains to pass to a link vendor, and we do not sell one separately. If a vendor's brief is what you need, buy the intersect from a tool for a few hundred euros and skip us, because that is genuinely all that step is worth. Not for you if: You need the report to justify a budget that is already spent, or nobody on your team has capacity to build anything in the next two quarters. In the second case the asset pile is unusable and you should buy the structural audit alone, which is the entry package and exists precisely for that situation. What you receive: The claimable listings pile as a worked list, each with the body, the qualification requirement, the person who has to submit, and whether your existing membership already covers it. Then the asset briefs, ranked by referring domains the equivalent earned multiplied by our read on repeatability, each with a working title, the data or internal access it needs, who inside your company must be involved, and a written note where we think it will fail. Then the bought pile, so nobody on your team proposes copying it six months from now.