One of the most important factors when building a web site or blog, is having internal backlinks. Not only does it help your traffic navigate through your web site, but it’s also greatly helps the search engines crawl through your site and see what keywords are being used to link to specific pages.
Many times people will focus on just creating content for their blog, and forgetting to actually build any internal links. One solution that has been downloads thousands upon thousands of times, is SEO Smart Links.
In short, it’s a free wordpress plugin that allows you to place internal (or external) backlinks through out your whole blog in one simple setup. You can view a complete list of the plugin’s features below.
SEO Smart Links Features
Find keywords in your posts, pages and comments and link them to your other posts, pages, categories and tags- Full control with customizable options
- Ignore list for keywords you do not want to link
- Improves your site’s interlinking
- Control external links with custom keywords
- Add nofollw attribute or open links in new window
- Caching for speed – make sure you have define(‘ENABLE_CACHE’, true); set in your wp-config.php
You can also see a screenshot of the plugin in action below. Once the plugin is setup, you just need to activate it, then add your keywords and destination urls. The plugin will then link up the keyword text every time it is found within your content. You can also play around with any of the settings to change how many times you want links to appear on a page, or if they should open in a new window or be no follow links.
SEO Smart Links Premium
While the free version of SEO Smart Links is probably good enough for the majority of blog owners out there, there is a premium version for looking to accomplish even more. There are several different versions of SEO Smart Links available, and depending on the size of your site and how in depth you want to setup and track links, you may be more interested in their premium versions. You can view the different versions here.
