seo-dataforseo

seo-dataforseo is a skill for Claude Code from ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo. It costs 127 tokens per session (914 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An SEO research tool for search-result pages, keywords, backlinks, and AI visibility. Backlinks are links from other websites; AI visibility measures whether language models mention a site or brand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for search-result checks, keyword volume and difficulty, multi-engine or image results, referring-domain research, competitor URLs, and tracking mentions in language models.
Why use it?
It provides live search and competitor information, while clearly distinguishing detailed metrics from a lower-detail web-search fallback when the DataForSEO connection is unavailable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the designer-pro-and-seo plugin — 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for search-result checks, keyword volume and difficulty, multi-engine or image results, referring-domain research, competitor URLs, and tracking mentions in language models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacharticulatev/designer-pro-and-seo/seo-dataforseo
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 ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo --skill seo-dataforseo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-pro-and-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 914 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 $0.00127 $0.00914
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00457
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00091

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9a45a332eb88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-dataforseo 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/seo-dataforseo/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

seo-dataforseo

Family: seo Status: Stable

Purpose

The premium data hub for the SEO family. Tool-aware: with the DataForSEO MCP connected it returns hard metrics (search volume, keyword difficulty, multi-engine and image SERP, referring domains, LLM-mention tracking); without it, it gives a qualitative SERP/keyword read from built-in web search so you still get a current ranking snapshot and competitor URLs — clearly labeled as lower-fidelity, with the exact metrics that require the MCP named.

Triggers

  • "dataforseo"
  • "live SERP" / "real search data"
  • "keyword volume" / "keyword difficulty" / "keyword research"
  • "backlink data" / "competitor data"
  • "AI visibility check" / "LLM mentions" / "ChatGPT mentions"
  • "image SERP" / "google images rankings"

Inputs

  • Query type (SERP | keyword | backlinks | AI-visibility)
  • Keyword(s) / domain / parameters per call

Steps

  1. Detect tooling. Check whether the DataForSEO MCP is exposed this session (scripts/workflow/capability_probe.py reports DATAFORSEO_*).
  2. Premium path (Tier 1, if connected). Call the DataForSEO MCP for the request; normalize into a compact table (volume/difficulty/positions/referring domains as applicable).
  3. Built-in path (Tier 2, always available). Use WebSearch to read the current SERP for the keyword(s): capture ranking URLs, titles, and apparent intent, and a competitor URL list. Do not fabricate volume, difficulty, or CPC — state that those require Tier 1.
  4. Report which tier ran and which specific metrics DataForSEO would add.

Capability routing

This skill follows the plugin's capability-tier cascade (references/CAPABILITY-TIERS.md):

  1. Tier 1 — DataForSEO MCP. If connected, use it for volume, difficulty, multi-engine + image SERP, backlinks, and AI-visibility data.
  2. Tier 2 — built-in (default). Otherwise a WebSearch SERP read: ranking URLs, titles, intent, competitor set. Qualitative — no volume/difficulty/CPC.
  3. Tier 4 — guided. If the user needs hard metrics and the MCP isn't connected, deliver the qualitative read and name the setup (add the DataForSEO extension).

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 9a45a332eb88

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seo-dataforseo is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 914 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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