SMF·MOZ-PRO
Can a prompt replace Moz Pro?
SEO & marketing — keyword research, backlinks and rank tracking
Exhibit tracking slip
Verdict
Moz Pro's headline metric, Domain Authority, is a proprietary score trained on Moz's own crawled link index; there's no honest way to reproduce that number, only a different number that isn't comparable to anyone else's. What is buildable is an on-page crawl and keyword tracker — genuinely the same ground this catalogue's Screaming Frog and AccuRanker entries already cover, since Moz Pro's own distinct value is almost entirely the proprietary metric and its link index.
Exhibit A — The prompt
Received on31.07.2026Be honest about scope before building anything: Moz Pro's actual headline feature, Domain Authority, is a proprietary score computed from Moz's own crawled link index — there is no honest way to reproduce that specific number, and a self-computed 'authority score' wouldn't be comparable to anything else in the industry. What's worth building instead is the same on-page crawl and keyword-tracking core this catalogue's Screaming Frog SEO Spider and AccuRanker entries already describe — if you haven't built one of those yet, start there rather than duplicating effort here. If you want a distinct addition on top: build a simple backlink list viewer using a smaller, accessible data source, such as Common Crawl's public dataset queried for links to your domain — not a live-updating link index, just an occasional snapshot of who links to you from a large public crawl. Store results in SQLite and show a simple linking-domains list with first-seen dates. Do not attempt to compute an authority score, model keyword difficulty, or promise up-to-date link discovery — those require Moz's own infrastructure and crawled data, not something a personal project can approximate honestly. No API key needed for the Common Crawl path, though it's a large dataset to query and may need cloud compute for the snapshot job.Opening prefills the prompt — press enter to run it.
Exhibit B — What you lose
- B.1 Domain Authority and Page Authority scores
- B.2 Moz's own crawled link index
- B.3 keyword difficulty modeled on that index
- B.4 years of SERP-feature and link-tracking history
Prior art
Exhibit C — Why people still pay: proprietary web index and data acquisition
The number itself, Domain Authority, has become an industry shorthand precisely because it's Moz's proprietary, consistently-computed score; a homemade equivalent wouldn't mean anything to anyone outside your own project.
Questions
Can I compute my own Domain Authority score?
Not meaningfully — Domain Authority is Moz's proprietary metric trained on their own link index. Any number you compute yourself wouldn't be comparable to real Domain Authority scores anyone else uses.
Is this different from the Screaming Frog or AccuRanker DIY builds in this catalogue?
Mostly it's the same ground — on-page crawling and rank tracking. Moz Pro's own genuinely distinct value is almost entirely the proprietary authority score and its link index, which this build explicitly doesn't attempt to replicate.
Can I see who links to my site?
A rough snapshot, via Common Crawl's public dataset — not a live, comprehensive link index like Moz's own, which crawls the web continuously and privately.
What does it cost to run?
Minimal for the crawl and tracking core; querying Common Crawl at any scale may need paid cloud compute for the snapshot job, though occasional personal use can often stay within free-tier limits.
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