What is seo-ahrefs-backlinks?

An Ahrefs report of links from other webpages to a domain, including the linking page, destination page, link text, source rating, and dates. These links are called backlinks.

Use it to review a backlink profile, count links and referring domains, compare dofollow and nofollow links, and find lost links.

It provides a structured view of who links to a site and helps separate high-rated sources, referring domains, and different link types.

seo-ahrefs-backlinks — Skill for Claude Code by lionkiii

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 lionkiii/claude-seo-skills --skill seo-ahrefs-backlinks

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-seo-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 6 agents.

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/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lionkiii/claude-seo-skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 757 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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	$0.00070	$0.00757
Opus 5	$0.00035	$0.00378
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00151
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00076

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9f3a4bf20ea4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

seo-ahrefs-backlinks scanned grade C with 2 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 12d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Verify with: cat ~/.claude/mcp.json | grep -i ahrefs

Reads MCP configurationmediumAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

- Verify with: cat ~/.claude/mcp.json | grep -i ahrefs

skills/seo-ahrefs-backlinks/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ahrefs Backlink Profile

Fetches top backlinks for a domain from Ahrefs, sorted by source Domain Rating (highest authority links first).

References

@skills/seo/references/mcp-degradation.md @skills/seo/references/ahrefs-api-reference.md

Inputs

domain: The bare domain to analyze (e.g., example.com). Strip https://, http://, and trailing slashes before passing to Ahrefs tools.

MCP Check

Before proceeding, verify Ahrefs MCP is available:

Use ToolSearch with query +ahrefs
If tools are returned → Ahrefs MCP is available, proceed to Execution
If no tools returned → display the Ahrefs MCP error template from references/mcp-degradation.md and stop

Execution

Step 1 — Call All Backlinks

Call mcp__claude_ai_ahrefs__site-explorer-all-backlinks with:

target: the bare domain (e.g., example.com)

Returns per backlink: url_from, url_to, anchor, domain_rating_source, first_seen, lost_date

Step 2 — Sort and Summarize

Sort results by domain_rating_source descending (highest DR first)
Count total backlinks
Count unique referring domains (deduplicate by root domain of url_from)
Count dofollow vs nofollow links (use lost_date absence to identify active links)

Output Format

## Ahrefs Backlinks: example.com

### Summary
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Total Backlinks | 45,230 |
| Unique Referring Domains | 3,210 |
| Dofollow Links | 38,400 (85%) |
| Nofollow Links | 6,830 (15%) |

### Top Backlinks (by Source DR)

| Linking Page | Target Page | Anchor Text | Source DR | Type | First Seen |
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------|------|------------|
| domain.com/page | example.com/blog | brand name | 82 | dofollow | 2024-01-15 |
| news.com/article | example.com/ | keyword phrase | 74 | dofollow | 2023-11-03 |

Error — Ahrefs MCP Not Available

If MCP check fails, display the Ahrefs error template from references/mcp-degradation.md:

## Ahrefs MCP Not Available

The `/seo ahrefs backlinks` command requires the Ahrefs MCP, which is not
currently connected.

**What you can do:**
- Use `/seo audit <url>` for a full static SEO analysis without live Ahrefs data
- Use `/seo technical <url>` for technical SEO issues without backlink/keyword data

**To connect Ahrefs MCP:**
- Ensure the Ahrefs MCP is registered at user scope in ~/.claude/mcp.json
- Verify with: cat ~/.claude/mcp.json | grep -i ahrefs
- Ahrefs MCP must be registered at user scope (not project scope) to work in subagents

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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.

12d ago First seen · 96 lines · 70 tokens per session scan C 9f3a4bf20ea4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-ahrefs-backlinks is a skill published in the GitHub repository lionkiii/claude-seo-skills (20 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, reads mcp configuration). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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