seo-backlinks

seo-backlinks is a skill for Claude Code from AgriciDaniel/claude-seo. It costs 75 tokens per session (3,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backlink analysis tool that examines links from other websites to a site. It also reviews the words used in those links and compares a site’s links with competitors’ links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review backlink profiles, find referring websites, inspect anchor text, detect potentially toxic links, and identify link-building gaps.
Why use it?
It helps reveal which sites support a website’s search visibility, which links may be harmful, and where competitors have links the site lacks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to review backlink profiles, find referring websites, inspect anchor text, detect potentially toxic links, and identify link-building gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/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 · 16,692 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.

Any agent
npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-seo --skill seo-backlinks
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.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,216 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 Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 11 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 11 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.03216
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01608
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00643
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00322

Measured 11d ago against content hash 95f395f5a3c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 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/seo-backlinks/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source Detection

Before analysis, detect available data sources:

  1. DataForSEO MCP (premium): Check if dataforseo_backlinks_summary tool is available
  2. Moz API (free signup): claude-seo run backlinks_auth.py --check moz --json
  3. Bing Webmaster (free signup): claude-seo run backlinks_auth.py --check bing --json
  4. Common Crawl (always available): Domain-level graph with PageRank
  5. Verification Crawler (always available): Checks if known backlinks still exist

Run claude-seo run backlinks_auth.py --check --json to detect all sources at once.

If no sources are configured beyond the always-available tier:

  • Still produce a report using Common Crawl domain metrics
  • Suggest: "Run /seo backlinks setup to add free Moz and Bing API keys for richer data"

Quick Reference

Command Purpose
/seo backlinks <url> Full backlink profile analysis (uses all available sources)
/seo backlinks gap <url1> <url2> Competitor backlink gap analysis
/seo backlinks toxic <url> Toxic link detection and disavow recommendations
/seo backlinks new <url> New and lost backlinks (DataForSEO only)
/seo backlinks verify <url> --links <file> Verify known backlinks still exist
/seo backlinks setup Show setup instructions for free backlink APIs

Analysis Framework

Produce all 7 sections below. Each section lists data sources in preference order.

1. Profile Overview

DataForSEO: dataforseo_backlinks_summary → total backlinks, referring domains, domain rank, follow ratio, trend.

Moz API: claude-seo run moz_api.py metrics <url> --json → Domain Authority, Page Authority, Spam Score, linking root domains, external links.

Common Crawl: claude-seo run commoncrawl_graph.py <domain> --json → PageRank, harmonic centrality, and low-confidence rank/presence data.

Scoring:

Metric Good Warning Critical
Referring domains >100 20-100 <20
Follow ratio >60% 40-60% <40%
Domain diversity No single domain >5% 1 domain >10% 1 domain >25%
Trend Growing or stable Slow decline Rapid decline (>20%/quarter)

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 268 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 95f395f5a3c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-backlinks is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (16,692 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 3,216 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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