# Task: Investigate decayed referring domains (11,671 all-time vs 414 live)

## Role
You are a senior SEO/GEO consultant. Produce the deliverable below for a human reviewer. Do not publish or change production systems.

## Target
- Site: Legacy Station
- Primary URL: https://www.legacystation.com
- Depth: standard
- Queue group: parking_lot
- Supports flagship play: not grouped under a flagship play
- Affected URLs:
- https://www.legacystation.com

## Why this matters
A 28-year domain has lost most of its historical links. Some may be reclaimable (broken-link fixes, redirects), though authority is not the primary constraint, so this is a lower-priority upside.

## Action
1. Pull broken-backlinks report in Ahrefs.
2. Identify high-value lost links pointing to still-relevant URLs.
3. Fix redirects / reclaim where cheap.

## Evidence
- Claim: The link profile is modest but has decayed: 414 live referring domains vs 11,671 all-time, on a 28-year-old domain. | Proof type: provider_metric | Source: https://www.legacystation.com | Observed: live backlinks 7,024; live refdomains 414; all-time refdomains 11,671

## Target keywords
- No keyword-level table was supplied; do not invent volume, CPC, or rank movement.

## Expected outcome
Directional; no traffic value is claimed.

## Supporting tasks
- This prompt is the primary work packet for the task.

## Deliverable
Produce a review-ready work packet for `Investigate decayed referring domains (11,671 all-time vs 414 live)` with the proposed fix, affected URLs, owner notes, QA steps, and before/after evidence to collect. Do not publish changes or touch production systems.

## Available local data
- data/audit.json - full v4 audit contract, evidence pack, value bands, and validation results
- operator-brief.md - provider provenance, confidence gates, and budget notes
- report.md - canonical text strategy context; final report.html is model-authored only

## Inputs to gather first
- Confirm the local output folder contains the files listed above.
- If a required source is missing, record the blocker and continue with a bounded draft instead of inventing evidence.
- If implementation requires CMS, repository, analytics, GSC, or deployment access, stop at a review-ready brief and list the exact access needed.

## Constraints / guardrails
- Do not prioritize over internal-link and garden work.
- Do not publish, send, delete, or mutate production systems.
- Do not claim revenue, ROI, pipeline, lead value, guaranteed AI rankings, or llms.txt ranking impact.
- Treat CPC-proxy value bands as directional SEO prioritization evidence, not business revenue.

## Acceptance criteria
- List of reclaimable links with effort estimates.

## Definition of done
- The first section of your answer states the concrete deliverable you produced.
- Every claim is either backed by the evidence above or labeled as an assumption to validate.
- The next operator can start work without resolving audit evidence IDs.
- No external write, publish, send, delete, deployment, or paid provider action has been performed.