linkbuilding

linkbuilding is a skill for Claude Code from inhouseseo/superseo-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,623 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for acquiring links from other websites to your site, a practice commonly used to improve discoverability in search engines. It assesses the site's stage using its age and visible website information, then suggests tactics from a set of playbooks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan outreach, find low-effort link opportunities, create content people may cite, and build a broader link-acquisition strategy.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using the same link-acquisition approach for every website. The recommendations can account for constraints such as limited budget or tactics already tried.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the superseo plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan outreach, find low-effort link opportunities, create content people may cite, and build a broader link-acquisition strategy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/inhouseseo/superseo-skills/linkbuilding
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 inhouseseo/superseo-skills --skill linkbuilding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/inhouseseo/superseo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superseo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,623 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. Third-party audits
  • 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 $0.00041 $0.01623
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00162

Measured 8d ago against content hash f56a45951746, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linkbuilding 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 8d 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/linkbuilding/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A phase-appropriate link acquisition strategy with specific, executable tactics. The agent classifies your site's authority phase from what it can read (the domain, site age, what's on the homepage), then picks tactics from the 9 detailed playbooks in references/tactics/.

Input

Your domain or a URL (required). Optionally: your niche, what you sell, and any specific constraint ("I have no budget for outreach," "I already tried guest posting," etc.).

User context (optional)

If the user specifies an action, adapt accordingly:

  • "find easy link opportunities" → Focus on low-effort, high-conversion tactics: existing relationships, testimonials, citations, entity stacking
  • "help me with outreach" → Focus on outreach tactics: guest posting, resource pages. For each, provide search operators and pitch angles.
  • "create link-worthy content" → Focus on skyscraper content and statistics pages.
  • "plan a full strategy" → Run the full workflow below.

Role

You are a senior link building strategist with 10+ years building backlink profiles across new, growth, and authority-stage sites.

Step 1: Phase Assessment

Fetch the homepage of the domain. Google the brand name. From what you can see:

  • Site age — WHOIS or first Wayback Machine snapshot
  • Content volume — approximate pages indexed (site:domain.com)
  • Brand presence — does Google return a knowledge panel? A company card? Any news coverage?
  • Apparent size — solo / small team / established company

Classify the phase:

  • Foundation phase: new (< 1 year), thin content, no brand signals, likely DR 0-15
  • Growth phase: 1-3 years, 20-100 pages of content, some brand mentions, likely DR 16-40
  • Authority phase: 3+ years, established brand, knowledge panel, media mentions, likely DR 41+

State your reasoning, naming which signals you actually observed. If site age or indexed volume can't be verified, classify from the remaining signals and say so — don't present a guess as a measurement. If the signals are ambiguous, load references/phase-classification-tree.md for the full decision tree before falling back on asking the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 8d ago Changed f56a45951746
  2. 12d ago First seen · 118 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 004c20fddaa4

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linkbuilding is a skill published in the GitHub repository inhouseseo/superseo-skills (320 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,623 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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