backlinks-check

backlinks-check is a skill for Claude Code from PavloSEO/seohead-seotools. It costs 178 tokens per session (869 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A check of backlinks from a supplied list of other web pages to a target domain. It verifies whether each link exists, how it is marked, and whether the linking page can be indexed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to monitor guest posts, directories, purchased links, and other known referring pages, including whether their links still work and pass link value.
Why use it?
A visible link may not help search visibility if it is marked nofollow, sponsored, or user-generated, or if the source page is excluded from indexing. The check explains why a link is missing or ineffective.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to monitor guest posts, directories, purchased links, and other known referring pages, including whether their links still work and pass link value.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pavloseo/seohead-seotools/backlinks-check
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 PavloSEO/seohead-seotools --skill backlinks-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PavloSEO/seohead-seotools

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 869 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00178 $0.00869
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00087

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6159aa1887ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlinks-check 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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/backlinks-check/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The presence of an <a href> is not enough. A link does not pass link equity if it uses rel=nofollow (or ugc/sponsored), if the donor page is blocked from indexing with meta robots noindex, if it applies nofollow to all links at once, or if it is canonicalized to another URL. The tool checks all of these conditions and groups the results by cause.

Important scope boundary: this checks your list of donor pages (purchased links, crowd-marketing links, guest posts, directories); it does not investigate someone else's backlink profile. External databases (Ahrefs, Majestic, GSC) are not available here; a request to "show every link to the site" requires one of them.

The tool is seohead backlinks-check (CLI + MCP seo_backlinks_check + HTTP).

When to use it

  • "check my backlinks," "are the links still live," "was the link removed";
  • "dofollow or nofollow," "does it pass link equity";
  • "does page X link to our site";
  • regular monitoring of purchased backlinks.

Workflow

Target: a domain (any link to the domain or one of its subdomains will match):

seohead backlinks-check --target example.com --donors "https://donor1.example/post,https://donor2.example/page"

Target: an exact URL (the address must match exactly):

seohead backlinks-check --target https://example.com/landing --donors-file donors.txt

--donors-file is a file containing one URL per line, with # marking comments. --concurrency N is the number of parallel requests (default: 3; maximum: 10). The limit is 500 donor pages per run.

Response contents

  • summary: found (link exists), missing (link is absent), dofollow, nofollow, on_noindex_page (the donor page is blocked from indexing, so no equity is passed).
  • results[] for each donor page: found, status_code, donor_indexable, canonical/canonical_elsewhere, links[] (for every link found: href, anchor, rel, follow, blocked_by), and reason, which explains why the link is absent or why it does not work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 6159aa1887ae

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backlinks-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository PavloSEO/seohead-seotools (0 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 869 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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