Internal Linking
What it does: Adds links between your own posts — automatically across a whole bulk batch, and one click at a time in the post editor. Links are only ever wrapped around words already in your text; nothing is rewritten and nothing new is added to the page.
Antradus AI Publisher v2.7.0 · Last updated 2026-08-26
Why this matters
A post that nothing links to is called an orphan, and orphans are the hardest pages to get seen. Search engines find pages by following links, so a page with no links pointing at it may barely get crawled — however good it is. AI assistants behave the same way: a set of articles that reference each other reads as real coverage of a subject, and gets quoted far more often than one isolated post.
If you publish 30 articles in a batch and none of them link to each other, you have created 30 orphans on the same day.
The rule this feature is built on
The AI chooses. The plugin writes.
The AI is asked one thing only: which phrase in this article deserves to link somewhere, and where should it go? It never touches your article. The plugin then finds that exact phrase and wraps it in a link — or refuses and tells you why.
That means:
- Your wording never changes. Not one word is added, removed or rephrased.
- A link is never placed in a heading, inside a quotation, inside code, or inside a link that is already there.
- If the phrase the AI picked isn’t really in your article, nothing happens and you’re told.
- The same page is never linked twice from one article.
Part 1 — Linking a whole bulk batch
On Bulk Publishing → New Batch, tick:
🔗 Link these articles to each other when the batch finishes
It’s ticked by default (you can change that default in Settings).
What happens, and when
Linking waits until every article in the batch exists — not until they’re published. That matters for drip schedules: a batch spread over 30 days is linked on day one, using the addresses the posts will have when they go live.
Once the last article is written, one extra job appears in the queue per post. Each is small: the plugin reads that post, picks a few links, writes them, and moves on. You’ll see them in the Queue tab named like 🔗 3 links added: Your Post Title.
Then a second pass runs: any post in the batch that still has nothing pointing at it gets an inbound link from its closest relative. That pass is the whole point — it’s what stops the orphan problem.
What it links to
By default each article links mostly to its batch siblings, plus at most two genuinely relevant posts you already had. That stops each batch becoming its own sealed island — which is the same orphan problem one level up. You can restrict it to batch-only in Settings.
Running it again
Batches you already published can be linked at any time: Bulk Publishing → Queue → 🔗 Link this batch. It’s safe to run repeatedly — it tops up what’s missing and never duplicates a link that’s already there.
Part 2 — Link suggestions while you write
Open any post and click 🔗 Suggest internal links in the Antradus AI panel. You get two lists.
➡ Pages this post should link to
Each row shows the exact phrase from your draft and where it would point. Click Insert and the link appears in your editor. It’s a normal edit — Ctrl+Z undoes it, and nothing is saved until you save.
⬅ Older posts that should link here
This is the half most SEO plugins don’t do, and it’s the one that fixes orphans. The plugin searches your existing posts for ones that already mention this subject in ordinary paragraph text, and offers to add the link there.
Every suggestion here is checked against the real article before you’re shown it, so if it’s offered, it will work. Click Add link and that older post is edited and saved for you — with a revision saved, so you can roll it back from the post’s own history.
💾 Save your post as a draft first. Suggestions need a post to work from, and the button will say so if you haven’t.
Settings
Antradus AI → Settings → 🔗 Internal Linking
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Link new batches by default | Pre-ticks the box on the Bulk Publishing page. You can still untick it per batch. |
| Most links per article | A ceiling, not a quota. Short articles get fewer — roughly one link per 250 words. Four suits a 1,000-word post. |
| What may be linked to | Batch siblings plus your best existing posts (recommended), or batch-only. |
Cost
Batch linking costs one small AI request per article — much smaller than writing the article, since only the picking is done by AI. Editor suggestions cost one request per click. Both are logged in Reporting like everything else.
The inbound half ("older posts that should link here") costs nothing — it’s found by searching your own content, not by asking a model.
When nothing happens
These are normal, honest outcomes, not failures:
| Message | What it means |
|---|---|
| "No related posts were found on this site yet" | You don’t have other content on this subject yet. This gets better as you publish. |
| "Nothing worth linking this time" | Everything relevant is already linked, or your wording doesn’t overlap with your other posts. |
| "Found X, but only inside a heading, a quote or an existing link" | The phrase exists but there’s nowhere safe to link it. Nothing was changed. |
| "The phrase X does not appear in the article" | The AI suggested wording that isn’t really there. It was rejected rather than forced in. |
What it does not do
- It doesn’t add a "Related posts" box, a widget, or anything to the front of your site.
- It doesn’t suggest links to other websites.
- It doesn’t audit your whole site for orphans in one go — suggestions are per post.
- It doesn’t touch WooCommerce products.