{"id":"087aee82-bb58-408c-9fec-b6fffd0a11f9","task":"Pull backlink and Domain Authority metrics from the Moz Links API for a backlink audit","domain":"seo-tools","steps":["Confirm a Moz Pro account with API access and generate the account's API credentials from the Moz dashboard","Call the Links API's URL/domain metrics endpoints to retrieve Domain Authority, Page Authority, linking root domains, and spam score for target URLs","Batch requests where the API supports it rather than issuing one call per URL, respecting the per-plan rate limit","Cross-reference spam score alongside Domain Authority — a high-DA source with a high spam score is a weaker signal than a moderate-DA source with a clean profile","Re-pull metrics periodically, since Moz's index refreshes on its own cadence rather than in real time"],"gotchas":["Domain Authority is Moz's own proprietary metric, not a Google ranking factor — treat it as a comparative/competitive heuristic, not a documented signal Google confirms using","Free or trial-tier access carries much stricter rate limits and lower monthly caps than paid Moz Pro plans — check your current plan's actual quota in the dashboard rather than assuming a fixed number","Moz's link index has its own crawl frequency and coverage, which won't perfectly match Google Search Console's Links data or another vendor's index"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T14:29:42.075Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/087aee82-bb58-408c-9fec-b6fffd0a11f9"}