SEO & marketing · checked 2026-10-19

Can I vibecode VerifiedDR?

KINDA· weekend project

For your own site, the weekly loop is a database of snapshots: authority score, new and lost backlinks, search terms and whether AI answers mention you. An agent can build that in a weekend from Search Console, a backlinks CSV and a few LLM APIs. The gaps are the data. DR comes from a third party, Search Console's links list is a sample without nofollow flags, API answers differ from what ChatGPT or Google show, and the link-exchange side depends on other site owners being in the network. Ahrefs Free already covers verified sites at no cost.

$29/moprice

$348you'd save a year

weekendbuild time

—people replaced it

Before you start

What you need on hand.

DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.

TimeA weekend; Google OAuth and the CSV exports are the slow parts

Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
Python 3.12 and uvNo native modules to compile.
Owner access in Google Search ConsoleFor the OAuth client and the term data.
A backlinks CSVExport it by hand from Search Console's Links report or Ahrefs Free before each import.
An LLM API keyOnly for the AI visibility check; the rest works without one.

Before you buildTry Ahrefs Free and Search Console first: for sites you own they show backlinks and keywords at no cost, which is most of what Monitor Basic reports.

1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.

The prompt

Build me a weekly site-authority tracker for my own domains to replace VerifiedDR's Monitor plan.
Requirements:

- Python 3.12 command-line app `authtrack` (typer, httpx, Jinja2), installed with `uv sync`; every
run writes history to SQLite (stdlib sqlite3) at ./data/authtrack.db.
- Sites: `authtrack add example.com` creates sites/example.com.yaml holding up to 20 search terms
and 25 buyer questions; at most 5 domains.
- Backlinks: no scraping of other sites. `authtrack import-links <domain> <csv>` reads a backlinks
CSV exported by hand from Search Console (Links report, "Latest links") or Ahrefs Free, maps the
columns through a `columns:` block in the YAML, stores each referring URL with first-seen and
last-seen dates, and prints new and lost links against the previous import.
- Authority: `authtrack set-dr <domain> <value>` stores a Domain Rating typed in from a source I
trust, with the date. Also compute a clearly labelled LOCAL score from the imported links:
referring domains, share marked dofollow when the CSV has that column, and share first seen in
the last 30 days. It is not DR and the report must say so.
- Search terms: weekly clicks, impressions and average position per term from the Search Console
API (`google-api-python-client`, installed-app OAuth, token in ./data/token.json).
- AI visibility: ask each buyer question through the OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity APIs (keys in
.env, any subset), store the full answer, and flag whether my domain or brand appears in the text
or in cited URLs.
- `authtrack run` does everything for every site; `authtrack report` writes ./report/index.html
(inline SVG sparklines, no JavaScript): DR history, new and lost links, term positions and a
visibility table per model.
- Alerts: DR down 2 points or more, or 5 or more links lost in a week, prints a line starting
ALERT and, when SMTP_URL is set in .env, sends it with `smtplib`.
- No accounts, no telemetry, local-first: outbound calls only to Google, the three LLM APIs and SMTP.
- Out of scope: link partners, exchanges, directories, computing DR, web crawling, other people's sites.
- README: where each CSV comes from, the Google OAuth steps (budget half an hour in the Google Cloud
console), a cron line, LLM cost per run, and a note that API answers differ from the chat apps.

Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.

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Then keep going

Next prompts, same folder.

The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own VerifiedDR.

Extend the authority tracker in this folder. Requirements:

- `authtrack digest` builds a plain-text and HTML email from the last two runs: DR change,
  new and lost links with their referring domains, and terms that moved more than 3 places.
- Send it through the SMTP_URL in .env with `smtplib`; skip sending when nothing changed and
  print why.
- A flag `--dry-run` prints the email to the terminal.
- Update the README with a cron line that runs `run` and then `digest` every Monday at 07:00.

Add a link health check to the authority tracker in this folder. Requirements:

- `authtrack verify <domain>` fetches every stored referring URL (httpx, 10 at a time, 5 second
  timeout, one request per host per second) and checks that the page still links to my domain.
- Record the HTTP status, the rel attribute (nofollow, sponsored, ugc) and the anchor text with
  `selectolax`; flag links that turned nofollow or disappeared.
- Respect robots.txt and send a User-Agent that names this project and my email from .env.
- Update the report with a "lost or changed" table and the README with the politeness limits.

Add a competitor view to the authority tracker in this folder. Requirements:

- Allow up to 3 competitor domains per site in the YAML; for them only store what is public:
  the AI visibility check of the same buyer questions and a typed-in DR.
- In the report, show a table of which questions name me, which name each competitor and which
  name nobody, with the answer text one click away.
- Do not crawl or scrape competitor sites.
- Update the README and say plainly that competitor backlinks are out of reach without a paid
  data provider.

What you lose

DR and TrueDR themselves: scores built on third-party link and traffic data you can't compute
Automatic weekly backlink discovery: you re-import CSVs by hand and Search Console shows only a sample
Link-exchange matching and submission to directories that VerifiedDR vets
The Trust Map that rates which backlinks carry weight
AI crawler tracking and the CLI, API and MCP access for agents

Why people still pay

Link building is slow, and the pitch is that you see which sites are worth asking and whether a link moved your number. Monitor is the cheap way to watch that; the 90-day programs bundle the outreach. A tracker you build shows your own numbers but not who to ask for a link.

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Do the math

VerifiedDR or your own copy?

Over

Your usage

Count my time12h ×$/h

VerifiedDR, 1 yr$348

Your own copy, 1 yr$35running + build session

You keep$313pays for itself in the first month

Estimate · Runs on your laptop or a cron job. Search Console is free; 25 questions a week through three LLM APIs cost a few dollars a month at most. The build is token usage on your agent plan.

Leaving VerifiedDR

Take your data, then cancel.

1 · Take your data out of VerifiedDR

1The API returns JSON for site lookups, and the same operations are available through the vdr command-line tool and an MCP server, so you can pull your numbers with a key from /dashboard/settings/api-keys.
2The pricing page says you keep the report and tracked history after a 90-day program; no export file or format is described for Monitor history.
3Save your DR, TrueDR and backlink history yourself now: copy the numbers or pull them through the API before you cancel.

2 · Cancel VerifiedDR

1Open Billing in the dashboard (the page links /dashboard/billing) and cancel Monitor; the page says it is month to month and can be cancelled at any time.
2No cancellation steps are published. If the button isn't there, email contact@verifieddr.com with the subject "VerifiedDR support" and name the site; support says it replies within one working day.
3A 90-day program is a one-time payment and does not renew.

Monitor's refund terms are not stated; the full-refund promise on the page is tied to the 90-day programs and the higher-DR-by-day-90 condition.
When a program ends without a choice, the account returns to the free tier, which still tracks DR and TrueDR weekly.
Ahrefs Free and Search Console cover your own site's backlinks and keywords, so start them before you cancel to have overlapping history.

Checked 2026-10-19 against VerifiedDR's docs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These are already free.

Ahrefs FreeFreeFree for sites you verify: site audit, up to 1,000 backlinks and 1,000 organic keywords at a time. Competitor sites need a paid plan.they host it
WebVisit ↗Google Search ConsoleFreeFree performance data for sites you own, plus a Links report you can export as CSV; it is a sample and does not flag nofollow.they host it
WebVisit ↗

The numbers

VerifiedDR pricing

Plan	Monthly	Annual, per month	What you get
Free	$0	$0	Weekly DR and TrueDR tracking for a site; 25 lifetime API calls.
Monitor Basic	$29	—	1 site. DR, TrueDR and traffic history with alerts, new and lost backlinks weekly, 20 Google search terms, 25 buyer questions checked weekly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI and Claude, 1,000 API calls a month.
Monitor Plus	$59	—	Same weekly tracking with 5,000 API calls a month. Site, term and question limits are not shown.
Monitor Pro	$99	—	Same weekly tracking with 10,000 API calls a month. Site, term and question limits are not shown.
Grow (90-day program)	custom	—	Monitor Plus for the term, one dofollow backlink, submission to 30 directories that pass VerifiedDR's trust checks and 20 exchange proposals sent for you.
Scale (90-day program)	custom	—	Monitor Pro for the term, submission to 50 directories, 50 exchange proposals and unlimited matched link partners.
Managed	custom	—	VerifiedDR builds the backlinks and improves your public pages; the page lists no further detail.

Free tier: DR and TrueDR for a site once a week; 25 lifetime API calls and 5 requests a minute.
Billing: Monitor is month to month and can be cancelled at any time; no annual price was shown. The 90-day programs are one-time payments that do not renew, and when one ends the account drops back to the free tier unless you pick Monitor or a new program.
Hidden costs: The pricing page describes only Basic in detail; Plus and Pro limits were not shown. Link exchange and directory submissions sit in the paid programs, not in Monitor. Paid accounts are rate limited to 60 API requests a minute.
Source: verifieddr.com

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A free account tracks DR and TrueDR once a week with no card; API access is 25 lifetime calls.

Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: DR and TrueDR themselves: scores built on third-party link and traffic data you can't compute, Automatic weekly backlink discovery: you re-import CSVs by hand and Search Console shows only a sample.

About $29 a month on the Monitor Basic plan, $348 a year (checked 2026-10-19).

DR and TrueDR themselves: scores built on third-party link and traffic data you can't compute; Automatic weekly backlink discovery: you re-import CSVs by hand and Search Console shows only a sample; Link-exchange matching and submission to directories that VerifiedDR vets; The Trust Map that rates which backlinks carry weight; AI crawler tracking and the CLI, API and MCP access for agents. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.