What is seo-backlinks?

A backlink audit tool using the DataForSEO Backlinks API. Backlinks are links from other websites to your site.

Use it to review backlink totals, referring domains, dofollow links, anchor text, high-authority sources, and an overall toxicity assessment with an Authority Score.

It shows whether a site's incoming links come from many trustworthy domains and flags patterns that may look manipulative or overly focused on the same search terms.

seo-backlinks — Skill for Claude Code by zubair-trabzada

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 zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude --skill seo-backlinks

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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/zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude/seo-backlinks/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude/seo-backlinks)

Your own site

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

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,107 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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	$0.00055	$0.01107
Opus 5.5	$0.00022	$0.00443
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00221
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00111

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0a917e29d5ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-backlinks scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

3. `chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env`

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/seo-backlinks/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Phase 0: Credential Preflight (REQUIRED — run BEFORE anything else)

Before running any of the steps below, always invoke the shared preflight check:

~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/preflight.sh

If exit code is 0: credentials are configured — proceed with the rest of this skill silently.

If exit code is 2: the script prints the DataForSEO setup wizard to stdout. STOP, display that wizard to the user verbatim, and wait for them to paste credentials in this format:

login: [email protected]
password: their_api_password_here

When they reply:

Parse login: and password: from their message.

Write them to ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env:

DATAFORSEO_LOGIN=<login>
DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD=<password>

chmod 600 ~/.claude/skills/seo/.env
Run a verification call: ~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/keyword_research.py volume "test"
If verification succeeds (real JSON returned): tell the user "✅ Credentials verified. Running your command now..." and proceed with the original request.
If status 40104 — Please verify your account: tell the user to verify their account at https://app.dataforseo.com/, then say "continue" to retry.
If any other auth error: ask them to double-check the API password (the long alphanumeric string from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access — not their account login password).

Never echo credentials back to the user, never include them in tool output, and never commit them.

Backlink Audit Skill

Powered by: DataForSEO API — Backlinks summary + referring_domains + anchors + domain_intersection. Cost: ~$0.03-0.05 per run.

Run

Three calls, parallel:

~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/backlinks.py summary --target <domain>
~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/backlinks.py refdomains --target <domain> --limit 100
~/.claude/skills/seo/scripts/backlinks.py anchors --target <domain> --limit 50

What to evaluate

Volume & freshness

Total backlinks, total referring domains
New backlinks in last 30/90 days
Lost backlinks in last 30/90 days
Trend: growing, stable, declining

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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.

2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 0a917e29d5ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seo-backlinks is a skill published in the GitHub repository zubair-trabzada/dataforseo-claude (175 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,107 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Analytics and metrics Marketing and SEO

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