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Backlink History

DataForSEO

Track backlink and referring-domain growth or decline over time.

Use this tool with your AI agent

  1. Copy the prompt
  2. Paste it into your agent
  3. Tell it what you need

Read https://scrollport.com/start. Use my existing Scrollport connection, or help me connect if needed. Help me use Backlink History (tool ID: dataforseo.backlink-history). Ask me for the details you need, then show me the result.

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Current price
$0.0336/request
Availability
Ready to run

Tool details

About this tool

Returns a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly backlink timeseries for link-velocity, campaign and loss monitoring.

Inputs and outputs

Input

date_fromstring · required

Value supplied for date from.

format: date

date_tostring · required

Value supplied for date to.

format: date

group_rangestring · optional

Value supplied for group range.

enum: day, week, month, year

include_subdomainsboolean · optional

Value supplied for include subdomains.

rank_scalestring · optional

Value supplied for rank scale.

enum: one_hundred, one_thousand

targetstring · required

Domain without protocol, path or www.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 253

Output

itemsarray

Returned items value.

items_countnumber

Returned items count value.

targetstring

Returned target value.

Example request and output

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "dataforseo.backlink-history",
  "input": {
    "target": "dataforseo.com",
    "date_to": "2026-08-01",
    "date_from": "2026-07-01",
    "group_range": "week"
  }
}

Output

{
  "items": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-05 00:00:00 +00:00",
      "rank": 49,
      "backlinks": 347138,
      "referring_pages": 343231,
      "referring_domains": 3533
    }
  ],
  "target": "dataforseo.com",
  "items_count": 5
}
Errors and limitations
  • configuration_error: DataForSEO account access, funding or cost controls blocked the request.Verify and fund the server-side DataForSEO API-access credentials, then retry unchanged.
  • invalid_input: DataForSEO rejected a target, location or bounded result control.example: {"target":"dataforseo.com","date_from":"2026-07-01","date_to":"2026-08-01","group_range":"week"}