Automatic Internal Linking

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I have a blog with about 100 articles and it was getting really difficult to manually interlink them all. I installed a plugin that does this automatically. It adds 3 random internal links on every post.

The link are quite random, words like "the" "this" etc are getting linked to posts. Is this good from a SEO perspective?
I think not?
#search engine optimization #automatic #internal #linking
  • My advice is to delete that plugin, as it is completely wasting the power of internal anchor text and by linking to single stop words, is providing zero usefulness to visitors, and is diluting any link power a page may have with useless 'random' linking, so yes it is not good for SEO or anything else.

    You can manually code automatic anchor text linking into Wp templates, but each link has to be done manually and the links will be site-wide i.e. whenever the anchor text is used.

    One way to overcome this problem, is to write a complete set of (keyworded) articles so that you have fixed amount of inter-linkable content all ready in one lump, i.e. a content silo
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    • Erm no.

      mate this plugin is probably good, I bet a lot of your pages dont have links on so the Link juice will hit a brick wall. By adding this prlugin you have given the juice somewhere to flow ( even though it may be a shit keyword )

      So no using this is worse that using it.
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  • I agree with Tim. That plugin is useless and will hurt your SEO, if anything.
  • No comprende. In a blog with good navigation (top side and bottom) articles are already interlinked. You can use a side bar to interlink critical articles. If you were trying to build relevance or something then maybe (dubious) but with generic words of no use.
  • Banned

    Odds are you're overwhelmed because you're not breaking the site down into categories.

    Random internal links isn't focused on anything, the random anchor-text is even worse. Nobody wants to rank for useless stop words (ex: this).
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    • Been in your bookmarks since 2010?

      Neither of those plugins have been updated in at least 2 years, very dangerous for Wp sites.
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  • Why don't you do it manually, I'm doing it this way. Because when you're writing at the composer, you add it very easy with the anchor text you choose, this will not take you much time. Doing this automatically may cause your current posts linking to another irrelevant content posts. I think so.
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    • Because it's the internet and we are lazy!

      In seriousness, automating processes is always welcome. In SEO that's hard to do because it requires a degree of human intelligence that cannot be automated or perfected. The website in question is a basic review site and I don't know how to interlink two product reviews together. I could but it would require a lot of thought and effort, kind of like "lawn mower x has 20 wheels which is better than lown mower y [insert link to lown mower y]". That requires effort and pre-thought which I tend to avoid. And when it goes to a 100 reviews it gets increasingly difficult.

      I agree there's nothing better than a well thought out website, since I've already passed that point, random automatic linking is what I've resorted too.
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  • These techniques used to work before 2010. Now you need to do manual high-quality work or outsource it.
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    Automatic Internal Linking

    I have a blog with about 100 articles and it was getting really difficult to manually interlink them all. I installed a plugin that does this automatically. It adds 3 random internal links on every post. The link are quite random, words like "the" "this" etc are getting linked to posts. Is this good from a SEO perspective?