Track new and lost backlinks across many domains at once

Pulls new and lost referring domain counts for every site on your list and writes the results into Google Sheets.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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An outside serviceA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
DataForSEOGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

You need to keep an eye on backlink health for a long list of domains, but checking each one manually in an SEO tool takes forever. Compiling those numbers into a spreadsheet by hand is slow and easy to get wrong.

Who it fits

SEO specialists and digital agencies who track backlink changes across many client or target domains.

How it works

  1. You run the check whenever you want an update, with your target domains listed in Google Sheets
  2. All domains are bundled together and sent as one batch request to a backlink data service
  3. New and lost referring domain counts are retrieved for every domain in the list
  4. The results are written back into the matching rows of your Google Sheet
What you get

Backlink shifts across every client site

You get new and lost referring domain counts for every site on your list in one run.

What you get

An updated Google Sheet showing new and lost referring domains for every tracked site.

What you need

A DataForSEO account and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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