SEO Auto Linker

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1. ★★★★★ LewisCowles

   9.1y ago

   I just recommended this to Paul Boag of the Boagworld podcast. It’s that good that after 4 years since last update it’s still working with a WordPress 4.8 I tested it on!

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2. ★★★★★ Zebios

   10.7y ago

   The idea is good to make the task quickly but come on my whole blog was crashed and it shows errors like this : c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-7–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-6–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-5–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-4–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-3–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-2–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-1–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-links-0–>c505218304b50c59c3659f6dda43bae7-header-0–> so i’m gonna look for the alternative

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3. ★★★★★ aberniz

   11.0y ago

   I’ve tried all plugins available for Internal Linking: 1) ‘Internal Link Building’ by Internet Marketing Ninjas. Problems: Links on Headings. It doesn’t allow to group keywords. 2) ‘WP Optimize’ By xTraffic. Problems: links are changed to bold; you can’t choose taxonomies (it broke my website). 3) ’SEO Smart Links’. Problems: many bad reviews, it has many problems. 4) ‘In-text SEO internal link building’ by NotedLinks. Retired. 5) ‘SEO Auto Linker’ is just the best. Period. You choose taxonomies. It doesn’t link headings. Links are not changed to bold. You can group keywords. Blacklist allow you to add exceptions. You can add nofollow in case you link to external links/affiliates.

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4. ★★★★★ gianfrancona

   11.7y ago

   Just a word: the best

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5. ★★★★★ graham333

   13.4y ago

   As far I can see SEO Auto Linker is/was the only plug-in that will do this task quickly. For my site it will work perfectly for certain words, but other words will break the site completely making it devoid of all text and content. The words that break it for me are ‘diet’,’external’ and ’causes’. Of course, if it only works some of the time it renders itself useless. I really hope the dev can find out what the problem is with this and restore it to it’s fully operational state. I’ll keep my fingers crossed, because this plug-in was a nugget. I will just mention, I have spent half a day tinkering with it, trying different settings, etc, even making a second using a URL I know is working via the plug-in, but all to no avail. Unhappy bunny here 🙁

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6. ★★★★★ Chris Walker

   13.4y ago

   Doesn’t show the settings page anymore

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7. ★★★★★ eclessia

   13.5y ago

   Does what it says on the packet. It would be perfect if you could add custom titles and alt atributes on links.

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8. ★★★★★ kdskd

   13.6y ago

   Works well. Minimalist, without bells and whistles. Have 130 auto links on my site without problem. Would request bulk editing feature.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2024-07-07 2K+ → 1K+ down after 447 days in tier
2. 2023-04-17 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress 90K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Automatic Internal Links for SEO by Pagup 1K+ installs · 3.5★ · 3 shared tags B
• LuckyWP Table of Contents 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B
• Link Whisper Free 30K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
• Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor) 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Internal Links Manager 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A

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SEO Auto Linker: 1K+ active installs, 3.9★ (11 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/seo-auto-linker