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Backlink Summary

DataForSEO

Measure backlink authority, referring domains, link types and spam signals for a site or page.

Capability
Backlink analysis
Current price
$0.0336/call
Availability
Ready to run
Last accepted verification

What this API does

Returns DataForSEO Rank and aggregate backlink counts for a domain, subdomain or page; DataForSEO Rank is not Ahrefs Domain Rating or URL Rating.

Agents select this operation with tool ID dataforseo.backlink-summary, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

backlinks_status_typestring · optional

Value supplied for backlinks status type.

enum: all, live, lost

include_subdomainsboolean · optional

Value supplied for include subdomains.

rank_scalestring · optional

Value supplied for rank scale.

enum: one_hundred, one_thousand

targetstring · required

Domain, subdomain or absolute page URL.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 2000

Output

backlinksnumber

Returned backlinks value.

broken_backlinksnumber

Returned broken backlinks value.

ranknumber

Returned rank value.

referring_domainsnumber

Returned referring domains value.

referring_main_domainsnumber

Returned referring main domains value.

referring_pagesnumber

Returned referring pages value.

targetstring

Returned target value.

Example request and output

This reviewed worked example is shared with inspect. Inspect also returns the current executable schema and price estimate before a paid run.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "dataforseo.backlink-summary",
  "input": {
    "target": "dataforseo.com",
    "include_subdomains": true
  }
}

Output

{
  "rank": 51,
  "target": "dataforseo.com",
  "backlinks": 341755,
  "referring_pages": 337609,
  "broken_backlinks": 2254,
  "referring_domains": 3867,
  "referring_main_domains": 3471
}
Teaching 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","include_subdomains":true}
Updated
24 August 2026

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