What is link-building?

A planning aid for earning relevant links and third-party mentions for specific web pages. It covers link gaps, reusable content assets, recovering lost links, partner and resource-page outreach, and checking link vendors for risk.

Use it to plan outreach, find pages that could link to your content, reclaim missed mentions, and assess whether existing links or proposed placements are relevant and legitimate.

It helps avoid treating every ranking problem as a link problem and reduces the risk of buying unsuitable or questionable links.

link-building — Skill for Claude Code by iamwaqargulzar

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 iamwaqargulzar/Marketing-Agent-OS --skill link-building

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iamwaqargulzar/Marketing-Agent-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-agent-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 175 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/iamwaqargulzar/marketing-agent-os/link-building/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/iamwaqargulzar/marketing-agent-os/link-building)

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 682 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00067	$0.00682
Opus 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00273
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00136
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00068

Measured 14d ago against content hash 3380449b7903, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

link-building 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 14d 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/link-building/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Link Building

Earn relevant editorial links and mentions without buying ranking credit or manufacturing endorsements. Read references/skill-contract.md for evidence, permissions, and handoffs; use references/earned-link-plan.md for tactics and verification.

Diagnose before outreach

Identify the target pages, real audience/query intent, existing assets, relevant competitors, backlink data access, prior placements/manual actions, and available effort. Confirm crawl/indexation/content/internal-linking issues before treating links as the limiting factor.

Compare referring pages/domains at the target-page level, with dates and data coverage. Counts or proprietary domain ratings alone cannot prove an authority bottleneck or guarantee that additional links will improve rank. Use offsite-signal-analyzer for detailed profile diagnosis and seo-audit for page issues.

Plan and qualify

Start with useful existing assets and appropriate reclamation or partner opportunities. Research the actual page, audience, editorial quality, destination fit, access limits, and a legitimate contact source. Preserve observed link attributes and placement evidence; do not invent audience traffic or editorial relationships.

For AI visibility, sample the buyer's real prompts and cited pages across engines/markets/time, not a universal list of high-authority domains. A relevant mention is a research lead, not proof that inclusion will cause an assistant to recommend the product.

Draft specific, truthful outreach with a bounded follow-up plan. Approve the recipient list, exact copy, channel, and caps before sending; the request for a link-building plan does not authorize messages, purchases, account creation, or profile changes.

Policy and risk

Check current search spam and outbound-link guidance. Do not recommend payment, products, or excessive exchanges for links intended to manipulate ranking credit. Commercial placements need appropriate qualification/disclosure; a qualifying attribute is not a guarantee that the whole arrangement is compliant.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

14d ago First seen · 40 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 3380449b7903

Subscribe to this mod's changes

link-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamwaqargulzar/Marketing-Agent-OS (8 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-23.

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