Seo Backlinks

seo-backlinks

Family: seo Status: Stable

Purpose

Backlink intelligence on a free-to-premium ladder. Tool-aware: with a link-data MCP connected (DataForSEO/Moz/Bing) it returns a full referring-domain profile with metrics; without one, it assembles a qualitative profile from public signals (Common Crawl web graph, Bing Webmaster) plus web-search mention discovery — rarer than it sounds on the free tier, and a genuine differentiator.

Triggers

• "backlinks" / "backlink audit"
• "link profile" / "referring domains"
• "anchor text"
• "toxic links" / "disavow"
• "link gap" / "competitor backlinks"
• "link building"

Inputs

• Domain
• Optional competitor domains (for gap analysis)
• Tier preference (auto | built-in | premium)

Steps

1. Detect tooling. Check whether a link-data MCP (DataForSEO/Moz/Bing) is exposed

this session (scripts/workflow/capability_probe.py reports relevant keys).

1. Premium path (Tier 1, if connected). Pull the full profile via the connected

MCP (referring domains, anchors, authority metrics); flag toxic links on conservative thresholds; compute competitor gap.

1. Built-in path (Tier 2, always available). Assemble a qualitative profile with

WebSearch: discover brand/URL mentions and likely linking domains, and group them. If you have access to a public web-graph (Common Crawl / Bing Webmaster), fold it in — the plugin ships no such fetcher, so treat it as optional. Label the result qualitative: exact counts, authority, and confirmed toxicity need Tier 1.

1. Synthesize. Produce the inventory, an anchor-text read, conservatively-flagged

toxic candidates (with the caveat that confirmation needs metrics), and a competitor-gap prospect list.

1. Report which tier ran and what a link-data MCP would add.

Capability routing

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

1. Tier 1 — link-data MCP. DataForSEO/Moz/Bing if connected → full metric profile.
2. Tier 2 — built-in (default). Common Crawl / Bing public signals + WebSearch

mention discovery → a qualitative profile and prospect list.

1. Tier 4 — guided. If the user needs authoritative counts/scores and no MCP is

connected, deliver the qualitative profile and name the setup to unlock metrics.

Always state which tier ran and what a link-data provider would add.

Outputs

• Backlink inventory (metric-rich on Tier 1; qualitative on Tier 2)
• Anchor-text distribution read
• Toxic-link candidates with a disavow-file recommendation (conservative)
• Competitor gap with a link-building prospect list

Dependencies

• Optional (Tier 1): a link-data MCP — seo-dataforseo (DataForSEO), or Moz/Bing —

adds full metrics; free path works without it

• Built-in (Tier 2): WebSearch; public Common Crawl / Bing Webmaster signals
• scripts/workflow/capability_probe.py

Notes

Toxic-link thresholds are conservative by default — better to under-flag than to recommend disavowing a healthy link. Free-tier backlink intelligence is the differentiator here.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: ZachArticulateV
• Source: ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.