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Track New and Lost Backlinks

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Track New and Lost Backlinks

Overview

Reads a column of domains from a Google Sheet and pulls, in one DataForSEO call, how many backlinks each of them gained and lost, stamped with the date.

Track New and Lost Backlinks

Reads a column of domains from a Google Sheet and pulls, in one DataForSEO call, how many backlinks each of them gained and lost, stamped with the date.

How it works

  1. Run — an Inject trigger; the source scenario was on-demand.
  2. Get Targets / Collect Targets — the Target column becomes one array of up to 1000 entries.
  3. Get New and Lost Backlinks — Account.RawRequest posts to /backlinks/bulk_new_lost_backlinks/live.
  4. Merge Results Into Rows — writes Date, New backlinks and Lost backlinks onto the matching row.
  5. Write Results Back — one SetRange from A1.

Set the trigger to repeat weekly and the sheet becomes a link velocity log: a spike in lost backlinks on one domain is the earliest warning that a placement was pulled or a partner site went down.

Setup

  • DataForSEO credential — API login and password from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-access.
  • Google credential — Service Account or OAuth2 with access to the spreadsheet.
  • A sheet with a Target column; the count columns are filled in by the flow.

Package note

Bulk New/Lost Backlinks has no dedicated node in Robomotion.DataForSEO 1.0.0, so the call goes through Raw Request.

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