Get backlink rank for domains API

One call returns backlink metrics for a domain. Each item in the answer is a domain with its backlink count, referring domains, spam score, and other link profile data. The sample contained 1 domain (pokemon.com) with 1.76M backlinks from 43K referring domains.

2 live routes on DataForSEO, from $0.024036 per call. Every route below answered our last live test on 2026-10-04; the gateway re-tests them daily.

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Provider	Endpoint	Price	Tested
DataForSEO	Backlink summary of a domainCHEAPEST`POST backlinks/summary/live`	$0.024036$24.04 / 1k calls	✓ 2026-10-04pricing ↗
DataForSEO	Backlink rank of domains`POST backlinks/bulk_ranks/live`	$0.024072$24.07 / 1k calls	✓ 2026-10-04pricing ↗

What it returns

From a real call to the cheapest route: DataForSEO.

result[].targetDomain analyzedresult[].rankDomain's backlink rankresult[].backlinksTotal backlinks to domainresult[].referring_domainsNumber of unique domains linking hereresult[].referring_pagesNumber of unique pages linking hereresult[].backlinks_spam_scoreSpam score 0-100result[].broken_backlinksCount of broken backlinksresult[].referring_links_typesBreakdown by link type (anchor, image, redirect, etc.)result[].referring_links_countriesBacklinks by country code

Call it

HTTP with your key in x-api-key, or the call_endpoint tool of our MCP server.

POST /api/gw/dataforseo/backlinks/summary/live$0.024036 / call✓ working · tested 2026-10-040.95 s latency

Parameters

Parameter	Type		Notes
target	str · body	JSON body field	e.g. `"pokemon.com"`

HTTP

curl -X POST "https://fetchapi.co/api/gw/dataforseo/backlinks/summary/live" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"target": "pokemon.com"}]'

MCP

call_endpoint("dataforseo.backlinks_summary", {}, [{"target": "pokemon.com"}])

Real example answer (trimmed) · 2026-10-04

{
  "cost": 0.024036,
  "time": "0.8228 sec.",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "10040440-2697-0265-0000-7ed2c29185a9",
      "cost": 0.024036,
      "data": {
        "api": "backlinks",
        "target": "pokemon.com",
        "function": "summary"
      },
      "path": [
        "v3",
        "backlinks",
        "… 2 more"
      ],
      "time": "0.7957 sec.",
      "result": [
        {
          "info": {
            "cms": null,
            "is_ip": false,
            "server": "AmazonS3",
            "country": "US",
            "ip_address": "45.60.123.52",
            "platform_type": [
              "…"
            ],
            "target_spam_score": 42
          },
          "rank": 563,
          "target": "pokemon.com",
          "backlinks": 1758228,
          "lost_date": null,
          "first_seen": "2019-01-15 23:05:11 +00:00",
          "broken_pages": 772,
          "crawled_pages": 59259,
          "referring_ips": 20061,
          "referring_pages": 1633783,
          "broken_backlinks": 6434,
          "referring_domains": 43107,
          "referring_subnets": 9338,
          "referring_links_tld": {
            "de": 48966,
            "it": 261891,
            "pl": 17976,
            "app": 35310,
            "com": 418654,
            "net": 463750,
            "org": 56728,
            "co.uk": 62542,
            "online": 18560,
            "blogspot.com": 60118
          },
          "…": "12 more fields"
        }
      ],
      "status_code": 20000,
      "result_count": 1,
      "status_message": "Ok."
    }
  ],
  "version": "0.1.20260917",
  "status_code": 20000,
  "tasks_count": 1,
  "tasks_error": 0,
  "status_message": "Ok."
}

Other routes for this job

DataForSEO · Backlink rank of domains$0.024072

POST /api/gw/dataforseo/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live$0.024072 / call✓ working · tested 2026-10-040.15 s latency

Parameters

Parameter	Type		Notes
targets	list · body	JSON body field	e.g. `["pokemon.com", "tcgplayer.com"]`

HTTP

curl -X POST "https://fetchapi.co/api/gw/dataforseo/backlinks/bulk_ranks/live" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"targets": ["pokemon.com", "tcgplayer.com"]}]'

MCP

call_endpoint("dataforseo.backlinks_bulk_ranks", {}, [{"targets": ["pokemon.com", "tcgplayer.com"]}])

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