Backlinks built by an agent that talks you through it
Runs inside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client. Tell it what you need. It plans the campaign with you, builds each link by following that site's exact method, checks the link went live, and tells you what it did in plain English.
pip install seoagents && claude mcp add seoagents -- seoagents
I want 100 backlinks for brightkettle.com this month.
100 links this month is a lot faster than I would go: 34 sites link to you today, and I'd suggest about 5. It's your site, so I'll build 100 if you want — I'd rather you knew the pace is the part that stands out, not the links themselves.
Ok, do it your way.
For a site like yours I'd do about 5 links this month, spread over 10 days. Here's the shape of it, and why:
- Anchor text: 5% exact match, 20% partial, 33% your brand, 27% the bare URL. Your profile is still small, so exact-match anchors stay rare — those are what bought links look like.
- 70% followed links. A profile where every link passes authority is not what real sites accumulate.
- Spread over 10 days, not placed in one afternoon.
Want me to go ahead?
Go.
Signed in to the first site, found the profile field, placing your link… checked the live page: real hyperlink, right anchor, followed. Logged with a screenshot. On to the next.
I've built 5 links for brightkettle.com, 2 of them on sites at DA 90 or higher. Every one is a live page carrying your link with the anchor we agreed, checked after placing. Search engines find new links on their own schedule, usually weeks — that's normal.
Getting a backlink hasn't changed in fifteen years
Find a site that gives links. Create an account. Find the field, or the editor. Place the link. Check that it actually went live, and that it's a real link, and that it's followed. Then do it again. Fifty links is fifty of those, and most of the time goes on the parts that have nothing to do with judgement.
So people pay to skip it. And what they pay for is where it goes wrong.
A real entry from a bought list. The score is a decade of old links. The site is gone. Nobody fetched the URL.
What actually goes wrong
- You pay an agency $150 to $400 a link and never see the method or the site list. When they leave, the knowledge leaves with them.
- You buy a list of "1,000 sites" and it's full of ghosts like the one above. Authority scores lag reality by years.
- The link goes up as plain text, or the host adds nofollow after you post. It looks fine on the page. Nobody checked.
- Fifty links land in one afternoon, all reading the same phrase. That's the clearest signal links were bought — and you paid for it.
What the agent does instead
Twenty-six tools, grouped by the four things you actually care about. The tool reference lists every one.
It plans with you, and says why
Most tools take an order. This one reads your situation first and argues for a pace your site can carry.
- Tells you what you need before you start
- Ask what it takes and you get a number: which sites are open right now, how many more open with a mailbox, which need you at the screen.
- Proposes the campaign shape with a reason on every line
- Pace from how many sites already link to you. Anchor mix tightened when the profile is thin. A followed share that looks natural. Ask for more than is wise and it says so once, then builds what you asked. It's your site.
- Reads your page for keywords and anchors
- Keywords from the target page itself, spread across the five anchor types so your profile isn't one phrase forty times.
It builds the link the way that site actually works
Not "go to the site and sign up". The exact method, and it learns when the guide is wrong.
- Knows the method for every site
- The playbook for that kind of link, the steps with the exact button and field names, and what the site requires.
- Builds in a real browser
- Login-free sites build in seconds with a proof screenshot. Account sites are built by the assistant in its own browser — signing up once, signing in ever after.
- Never forgets what a site taught it
- Which field gives the followed link, a length cap, a password rule the page never shows. Found once, recorded, and the next build starts from the truth.
- Stops at gates instead of faking its way through
- A captcha, an email code or a social login is a gate. It says what the site wants in plain words and offers the ways through.
It checks before it counts
A link only exists if the public page shows a real hyperlink to you, with the anchor you agreed, and passes authority.
- Verifies every link on the live page
- Three checks: is your URL a real hyperlink, does the anchor match, is it followed. Plain-text URLs and links the host quietly made nofollow don't count.
- Reports what it built, from its own record
- Every link with its anchor, where it lives, the site's authority and when. Not a backlink index that won't show a new link for weeks.
- Keeps the proof
- A screenshot of every placement, a live URL, a status you can trust. A link it couldn't verify is reported as unverified, never counted.
It keeps watching, and keeps the pace
Links drop. Profiles get deleted. And a burst of links is the pattern that gets a site looked at.
- Paces everything
- Links arrive steadily across days and methods — at most 5 a day and 20 a week to any one site. Many sites under one subscription.
- Watches the links afterwards
- Weekly re-checks of everything it placed, every referring domain to your site, what's new and lost each month, spam flags, and a disavow file.
- Finds what competitors have and you don't
- Point it at two or three competitors and it lists the referring domains they have that you lack, with the method to build each one attached.
Against a person doing it by hand
It's better at the repetitive part, which is most of the job. The judgement stays yours.
The judgement is yours
Which keywords matter, how fast to go, whether a site suits your brand. It advises with reasons, then does what you say.
The gates are yours
It won't solve a captcha by pretending to be a person, or sign into your Google account unattended. Links built that way get removed.
The content is yours
On sites that want an article, it writes to your brief. It won't spin nonsense to get past a moderator.
The honesty is built in
A link it couldn't verify is reported as unverified, not counted. It never promises a ranking.
What fifty verified links a month costs
Typical market ranges. The point isn't that people are expensive; it's that most of what you pay them for is the repetitive part.
a month, plus tools. 3 to 6 weeks for 50, at 30–60 minutes a link. Knows only the sites they've used before.
per 50, at $150–400 a DA 40+ followed link. 4 to 8 weeks. Their list, not yours; you never see the method.
per 50, at $10–50 a link. 1 to 2 weeks. Usually the same hundred sites everyone else spams.
a month, billed yearly, or $27 month to month. 1,141 sites with the exact method for each, re-verified monthly, paced on purpose.
The library is the part a team can't copy quickly. Every site in it came from years of link building: which DA 60 profile page still gives a followed link, which forum strips links from new members, which shortener sits behind a captcha, which directory approves in a day. Each entry carries the method with the exact button names, what the site requires, and referring domains, spam score and traffic. A person could rebuild that list. It would take them the same years.
Pricing
Works in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT and any MCP client: the pip package for local mode, a personal link for connectors. The WordPress, Shopify and desktop apps are next.
Subscribe, $97 a year $27 a month Install freeThe free backlink sites list
Twenty-five reachable sites, DA 20 to 96, all followed, each with a step-by-step method your assistant can follow. Your ten free links may put one of them on a DA 90+ site. The first twelve:
| Site | DA | Referring domains | Method | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medium | 96 | 1,371,100 | Article or blog post | dofollow |
| IMDB | 95 | 891,904 | Profile website field | dofollow |
| Zotero | 75 | 51,364 | Bookmark / link submit | dofollow |
| ArtFire | 75 | 31,486 | Profile website field | dofollow |
| Milkyway (.edu) | 75 | 9,011 | Profile website field | dofollow |
| DsiBlogger | 74 | 37,269 | Article or blog post | dofollow |
| FireBlogz | 74 | 39,401 | Article or blog post | dofollow |
| Beatstars | 73 | 39,465 | Page builder site | dofollow |
| Flip HTML5 | 73 | 226,903 | Shared document | dofollow |
| Figma | 71 | 101,339 | Social post | dofollow |
| MD Anderson | 71 | 918 | Other | dofollow |
| Wakelet | 71 | 191,490 | Bookmark / link submit | dofollow |
Site lists with DA and referring domains
Where it runs
One engine, one library, one subscription. Four ways in, at four different stages.
Guides
- How to use SEO Agent: setup to your first verified backlink
- How to get backlinks with an AI agent
- Link building software, and what most of it leaves out
- Claude SEO: link building from Claude Code and Claude Desktop
- Cursor SEO: link building from Cursor
- LLM SEO and SEO automation
- The SEO MCP server: tool reference
- Roadmap and status