backlink-monitoring

backlink-monitoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thisisAhsanIqbal/nextjs-seo-audit. It costs 43 tokens per session (703 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An SEO checker for links leading from a webpage to other websites. SEO is the practice of improving how pages appear in search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to count outbound links, review dofollow and nofollow settings, check sponsored or user-submitted links, assess anchor text, and compare linked domains.
Why use it?
It reveals whether external links are labelled and written clearly, and whether linking choices may send unclear signals to search engines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Note**: This skill owns **external/outbound link analysis**. For internal link counts and structure, see the [onpage-optimization](../onpage-optimization/SKIL.

Good fit Use it to count outbound links, review dofollow and nofollow settings, check sponsored or user-submitted links, assess anchor text, and compare linked domains.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thisisAhsanIqbal/nextjs-seo-audit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thisisahsaniqbal/nextjs-seo-audit/backlink-monitoring

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 703 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 $0.00043 $0.00703
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 12d ago against content hash 736bd8e3433d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backlink-monitoring 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 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.

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/backlink-monitoring/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyse outbound links on the page for SEO link strategy.

Note: This skill owns external/outbound link analysis. For internal link counts and structure, see the onpage-optimization skill.

For each <a href="..."> element:

  • External: href starts with http:// or https://
  • Classify as dofollow (default) or nofollow (if rel contains nofollow)

Report: ✅ PASS "Found N external link(s): X dofollow, Y nofollow"

2. Nofollow strategy

Condition Status
All external links are dofollow, none nofollow ⚠️ WARN "Consider adding rel=nofollow to untrusted or sponsored links"
Mix of dofollow and nofollow ✅ PASS (healthy strategy)

3. Sponsored and UGC attributes

  • Links with rel="sponsored" → ✅ PASS "N link(s) properly marked as sponsored"
  • Links with rel="ugc" → ✅ PASS "N link(s) marked as UGC (user-generated content)"

4. Anchor text quality

  • External links with empty anchor text (and no child <img>) → ⚠️ WARN "Descriptive anchor text improves SEO"

5. Domain diversity

  • Extract unique hostnames from all external link href values
  • Report: ✅ PASS "Links point to N unique domain(s): [list domains]"
  • If zero external links found → ⚠️ WARN "Linking to authoritative sources can boost SEO credibility"

Best practices to suggest

  • Use rel="nofollow" for untrusted, paid, or user-submitted links
  • Use rel="sponsored" for paid/advertising links
  • Use rel="ugc" for user-generated content (comments, forums)
  • Write descriptive anchor text — avoid "click here" or empty links
  • Link to authoritative, relevant external sources
  • Maintain domain diversity — don't link excessively to one domain

Edge cases

  • Ignore javascript:, mailto:, and tel: hrefs — these are not external links
  • Links with multiple rel values (e.g. rel="nofollow sponsored") — check each value separately
  • Links inside <template>, <noscript>, or hidden elements should still be audited but noted as potentially inactive
  • Social media share buttons (Twitter, Facebook intents) are external but should not trigger nofollow warnings
  • CDN links (e.g. cdn.jsdelivr.net, fonts.googleapis.com) are resource links, not editorial — exclude from domain diversity count

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 12d ago First seen · 69 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 736bd8e3433d

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backlink-monitoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository thisisAhsanIqbal/nextjs-seo-audit (7 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 703 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 2026-08-31.

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