You all know that using the right internal linking strategy can boost your SEO! Before your content can rank, it needs links. Internal links connect your content and give Google an idea of the structure of your website. The more links an important page receives, the more important it will seem to search engines. Therefore, good internal links are crucial to your SEO.
The Automatic links for SEO plugin is a revolution in the field of internal linking. No need to manually create your links with any other WordPress plugins. This plugin will do it for you, in automatic mode, using Yoast / Rank Math Focus keywords as **anchor text for internal link building.**
How it works (short version)
Once the plugin is installed, take a few minutes to read the few explanations to understand which features to use.
- Make sure you select the correct options in the “Settings” section. These are generalized to all the functionalities of the plugin (SYNC, AUTO LINKS, INTERNAL / EXTERNAL LINKS), such as for example:
- Where to apply: if you want the plugin to limit link creation only to pages, articles, products and “custom post types”.
- Where to NOT apply: if you want to exclude pages, articles, and others (note that you can also exclude some pages by using the META BOX visible in the SIDEBAR of each of your pages).
- Exclude HTML Tags: if you want to limit link creation to your content (by default, H1, H2, H3 tags are excluded)
- Priority: if you want the links to be created to override the links already created
- Max links: the number of links to create per page (make sure not to create too many, 2 is a good average)
- New Tab: if the created links should open in a new window
- No Follow: if the NOFOLLOW attribute must be added to created links (not recommended – only for external links)
- Partial Match: if the “Anchor text” created can vary depending on whether the word found contains a variation (the plural form).
- Case sensitive: if the “anchor text” created must have the same “shape” (capital letters, for example)
Once launched, a log will appear just below showing you all the links being created.
Once finished, if you want to view all the links created by the plugin, simply go to “Activity Log“.
Then you can also create custom links manually by going to the “Custom Manual links” section.
– The “Internal links” feature allows you to create internal links from custom words (anchor text) (other than “focus Keywords”) for existing pages on your website
– The “External links” feature allows you to create external links also from specific words (Anchor text)
An editable “Log” is available on the same page allowing you to modify each of these “custom” links.
