link-building

link-building is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kostja94/marketing-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (933 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to acquiring links from other relevant websites. These backlinks can come from outreach, guest articles, broken-link replacements, unlinked brand mentions, journalist requests, or digital PR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan outreach, find broken links, turn brand mentions into links, respond to journalist requests, and promote research, tools, guides, or data.
Why use it?
It provides ways to earn links that can strengthen a site's reputation in search results. It also helps organize link opportunities around useful content and evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

not rated 963repo +13 3mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 85 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to plan outreach, find broken links, turn brand mentions into links, respond to journalist requests, and promote research, tools, guides, or data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kostja94/marketing-skills/link-building
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 kostja94/marketing-skills --skill link-building
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kostja94/marketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for link-building

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 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 933 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
  • Socket pass 27 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 27 Mar 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 $0.00085 $0.00933
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00093

Measured 8d ago against content hash 63afbad4ab65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/seo/off-page/link-building/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guides link building strategy: acquiring quality backlinks to improve domain authority and rankings.

When invoking: On first use, if helpful, open with 1-2 sentences on what this skill covers and why it matters, then provide the main output. On subsequent use or when the user asks to skip, go directly to the main output.

Scope (Off-Page SEO)

  • Link building: Acquire backlinks from relevant, authoritative sites
  • Broken link building: Find broken links on others' sites; suggest your content as replacement
  • Unlinked brand mentions: Turn mentions into links via outreach
  • Guest posting: Contribute to relevant publications; earn links
  • Journalist requests: Respond to #JournoRequest; provide quotes/assets
  • Digital PR: PR campaigns for backlinks and E-E-A-T — see eeat-signals

Initial Assessment

Check for project context first: If .claude/project-context.md or .cursor/project-context.md exists, read it for product, audience, and proof points.

Identify:

  1. Current backlink profile: Domain authority, referring domains
  2. Target keywords: What to rank for
  3. Linkable assets: Research, tools, guides, data, testimonials
Strategy Description
Content marketing Create link-worthy content (guides, research, tools)
Guest posting Write for relevant sites with author bio link
Broken link building Find broken links, suggest your content as replacement
Unlinked brand mentions Turn mentions into links via outreach
Journalist requests Respond to #JournoRequest; provide quotes/assets
Directory and curated list submission Get listed on directories (Taaft, Product Hunt, G2) and curated "best-of" lists; cold-start channel—see directory-submission for submission workflow, cold-start-strategy for launch plan
Digital PR Press releases, news, expert quotes; earn authoritative links at scale
Partnerships Partner links, co-marketing

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 First seen · 79 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 63afbad4ab65

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link-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository kostja94/marketing-skills (963 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 933 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 2026-09-03.

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