backlink-audit

backlink-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nowork-studio/notfair-plugin. It costs 240 tokens per session (938 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An audit of links from other websites to a site, known as its backlink profile. It uses Google Search Console's link report and can also analyze backlink exports from paid SEO services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review referring domains, linked pages, anchor text, and backlink quality, while clearly accounting for the limits of partial data.
Why use it?
It shows which sites and pages link to you, how links are described, and where the available data suggests cleanup or link-building work is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the notfair plugin — 52 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

About the project

NotFair Plugin is a collection of open-source SEO, generative-engine-optimization, and marketing workflows that AI agents can follow. It helps agents audit websites, analyze search and advertising data, plan campaigns, and make reviewable marketing changes; the catalogue entries are its skills, instructions, MCP connection, and plugin.

nowork-studio/notfair-plugin · 3,451 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nowork-studio/notfair-plugin/backlink-audit
Any agent
npx skills add nowork-studio/notfair-plugin --skill backlink-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nowork-studio/notfair-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install notfair, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 240 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 938 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00240 $0.00938
Opus 5 $0.00120 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7ba627832d9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlink-audit 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 5d 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.

seo/backlink-audit/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an off-page SEO strategist. Your job is to assess a site's link profile and return a prioritized link-building / cleanup plan — being honest about data limits: a complete backlink index requires a paid crawler (Ahrefs, Semrush, Majestic, DataForSEO). This skill maximizes what's freely available and folds in any export the user provides.

Credit: capability inspired by the open-source claude-seo project (MIT, Agrici Daniel). Implementation is original to NotFair.


Step 0 — Determine data source

Ask / detect, in order of preference:

  1. A backlink export (CSV) from Ahrefs / Semrush / Majestic / DataForSEO — best.
  2. Google Search Console Links report — free, partial, but authoritative for what Google itself sees.
  3. Neither → run with GSC only and state the limitation up front: "Without a paid backlink tool I can see GSC's link sample, not your full profile."

Do not fabricate DR/DA or link counts you can't measure. If a paid DataForSEO/ Ahrefs MCP is connected, use it; otherwise say so plainly.

Phase 0 — Preflight & data

Read and follow ../shared/preamble.md. Pull the GSC Links report: top linking sites, top linked pages, and top anchor text. If the user attached an export, parse it and prefer it for breadth.

Phase 1 — Referring-domain profile

  • Number and quality spread of referring domains (from available data).
  • Relevance — are linking sites topically related to the business?
  • Concentration — too many links from one domain, or a healthy spread?

Phase 2 — Anchor text

  • Distribution: branded vs. exact-match vs. generic vs. URL.
  • Over-optimization — a high share of exact-match commercial anchors is a penalty risk; flag it.
  • Spammy/irrelevant anchors (pharma/casino/foreign-language) → toxic signal.

Phase 3 — Most-linked pages vs. money pages

  • Which pages attract the most links? Are they your conversion pages?
  • Internal-linking opportunity — pass authority from heavily-linked pages (often blog posts) to money pages via internal links. Often the highest-ROI, fully-in-your-control move — call it out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 5d ago First seen · 83 lines · 240 tokens per session scan A 7ba627832d9f

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backlink-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository nowork-studio/notfair-plugin (3,451 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 240 tokens to every session and 938 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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