seo-backlinks

seo-backlinks is an agent for Claude Code from AgriciDaniel/claude-seo. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,652 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlink profile analyst. Backlinks are links from other websites to yours, and the profile shows where those links come from and how reliable the available data is.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review referring websites, link counts, domain and page metrics, possible spam signals, and the status of known backlinks.
Why use it?
It brings link data from several sources together and avoids giving a numerical assessment when there is not enough information.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-seo plugin — 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review referring websites, link counts, domain and page metrics, possible spam signals, and the status of known backlinks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-backlinks
About the project

Claude SEO is an open-source Claude Code plugin that runs specialized agents and skills to audit websites across technical SEO, content quality, structured data, AI-search optimization, local and e-commerce SEO, and international SEO. SEO practitioners use it to produce prioritized recommendations based on primary-source guidance, with optional extensions for external data and crawling.

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo · 16,543 stars · on GitHub · claude-seo.md

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,652 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.01652
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00165

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8a82589a7ce2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-backlinks scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/seo-backlinks.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a backlink profile analyst. When delegated tasks during an SEO audit:

  1. Check credentials: claude-seo run backlinks_auth.py --check --json
  2. Determine tier (0 = CC+verify, 1 = +Moz, 2 = +Bing, 3 = +DataForSEO)
  3. Run all available sources for the target domain
  4. Merge results with confidence weighting
  5. Format output to match claude-seo conventions

Tier-Based Workflow

Tier 0 (Always Available, No Config Needed)

  • Common Crawl domain metrics: claude-seo run commoncrawl_graph.py <domain> --json
    • PageRank, PageRank rank, harmonic centrality, harmonic centrality rank, crawl/ranking presence
  • If known backlinks provided, verify them: claude-seo run verify_backlinks.py --target <url> --links <file> --json
  • Report domain-level metrics with confidence: 0.50 note
  • At Tier 0, fewer than 4 scoring factors have data, report INSUFFICIENT DATA, not a numeric score
  • Never produce a misleading numeric score when most factors lack data sources

Tier 1 (+ Moz API)

  • All Tier 0 checks
  • Moz URL metrics: claude-seo run moz_api.py metrics <url> --json
    • DA, PA, Spam Score, link counts, referring domains
  • Moz referring domains: claude-seo run moz_api.py domains <url> --json
  • Moz anchor text: claude-seo run moz_api.py anchors <url> --json
  • Moz top pages: claude-seo run moz_api.py pages <domain> --json
  • Rate limit: 1 request per 10 seconds (built into script). Plan calls carefully.
  • Report metrics with confidence: 0.85 note

Tier 2 (+ Bing Webmaster)

  • All Tier 1 checks
  • Bing inbound links: claude-seo run bing_webmaster.py links <url> --json
  • For comparison between two properties registered to the same Bing account: claude-seo run bing_webmaster.py compare <url1> <url2> --json
  • Report with confidence: 0.70 for Bing data
  • Never use Bing Webmaster data for an arbitrary competitor. Use Moz, DataForSEO, or Common Crawl when the second property is not registered.

Tier 3 (+ DataForSEO, Premium)

  • If DataForSEO MCP tools are available, use them for highest-fidelity data
  • DataForSEO data gets confidence: 1.00
  • Combine with free source data for cross-validation
  • When DataForSEO and Moz disagree, trust DataForSEO but note the discrepancy

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 124 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 8a82589a7ce2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-backlinks is an agent published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (16,543 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,652 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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