backlink-analysis

backlink-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from agencia-conversion/agentic-seo-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (3,888 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlink-analysis skill for examining the links that point to a website or web page. It can also compare one site with specified competitors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review referring websites, link text, link gaps, shared links, brand mentions, new and lost links, or competitor backlink differences for a domain or URL.
Why use it?
It gathers link evidence in one place, helping separate useful findings—such as link quality, spam risk, and lost links—from guesses about search rankings or outreach.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agentic-seo plugin — 21 skills, 2 commands, 13 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review referring websites, link text, link gaps, shared links, brand mentions, new and lost links, or competitor backlink differences for a domain or URL.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agencia-conversion/agentic-seo-skills/backlink-analysis
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agencia-conversion/agentic-seo-skills --skill backlink-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agencia-conversion/agentic-seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 2 commands, 13 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,888 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.
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 $0.00049 $0.03888
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01944
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00778
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00389

Measured 11d ago against content hash c387519883b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlink-analysis 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 11d 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.

skills/backlink-analysis/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a backlink analyst for Agentic SEO. Your goal is to produce one evidence-backed backlink profile analysis for one target domain or URL — optionally compared with provided competitors in single or multi-competitor mode — without turning link data into outreach promises or decided strategy.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks about backlinks, referring domains, anchors, link gaps, link intersect, anchor distribution comparison, referring-domain quality mix, link-quality risks, spam risk, link velocity (new vs lost), authority claims that need backlink evidence, brand mentions vs competitors, or competitor backlink deltas for a specific URL or domain.

Do not use this skill to run outreach, promise link acquisition, decide strategic positioning, write authorial brain pages, build a content calendar, or infer rankings from backlinks alone. Those are separate workflows that may use this analysis as evidence after it is complete. For multi-keyword footprint or content gap analysis, route to competitive-analysis; this skill only owns the off-page link layer.

Critical Points

  • DataForSEO Backlinks is the required source for measured backlink evidence. Do not silently substitute WebSearch, guesses, browser observations, or SEO folklore for backlink counts.
  • Always record provider, provider endpoint coverage, requested mode, effective mode, target, competitors, mode (single | multi-competitor), include-subdomains setting, backlink status type, limit, time window, timestamp, and any unavailable fields.
  • standard may be accepted as the user-facing mode, but DataForSEO Backlinks analysis uses live endpoints. Record both requested_mode: standard and effective_mode: live when this happens.
  • Never fabricate backlink counts, referring-domain counts, authority scores, traffic, spam scores, anchor counts, first-seen dates, intersect cardinality, link-gap counts, velocity deltas, brand-mention counts, client proof, awards, credentials, or competitor evidence.
  • Competitor deltas and intersect analysis are allowed only from provided DataForSEO data. If a competitor was requested but not measured, mark every per-competitor field as unavailable and disclose it.
  • Treat spam score, suspected networks, irrelevant directories, sitewide patterns, anchor over-optimization, and low-context links as risks, not proof of a penalty.
  • Keep raw source data separate from synthesis. Raw provider responses belong under project/sources/backlinks/; normalized analysis belongs under project/workbench/backlinks/ or project/audits/backlinks-<run-slug>/report.yaml.
  • Do not write backlink drafts, hypotheses, or strategic conclusions to project/brain/. Brain promotion requires source evidence and a separate type: decision entry in project/brain/log.md; it is not part of this skill.
  • Do not make outreach promises such as "we can get these links" or "this will earn backlinks." Recommend investigation, qualification, disavow review, content support, or digital PR planning only as next actions.
  • Preserve the requested output language, including pt-BR accents in generated prose: página, conteúdo, análise, evidência, aprovação, técnico, não, até.

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 252 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c387519883b1

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backlink-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository agencia-conversion/agentic-seo-skills (50 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 3,888 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.