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SEO Auto Linker

by Arjan Olsder

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Description

Want to automatically create cornerstone content? WPA SEO Auto Linker helps get this done. Simply create a new keyword or a new phrase. The system will link that keyword or phrase to your chosen dofollow URL. Through the settings, it is easy to finetune the workings of this plugin. For performance, it is best to make use of a caching engine.

“Using this plugin didn’t just help define cornerstone content in our SEO strategy, it also increased pageviews by 18%. The average visitor spends 13 seconds more on our website.” – Roelof van Doorn, technical editor at GadgetGear.nl

While our plugin has been without support for three years, we have seen a lot of similar plugins moving in. Please note we will not be adding fancy interfaces or click tracking. The reason is we want to remain the fastest tool on the market. Click tracking takes a heavy hit on your database while creating a smooth graphical interface will lead to code bloat and the security risks that come with maintaining huge heaps of code. We just don’t want that.

Credits

WPA SEO Auto Linker plugin is based on the SEO Auto Links 0.5 plugin by Maarten Brakkee.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-auto-links/

The SEO Auto links plugin is based on the SEO Smart Links 2.7.6 plugin by Vladimir Prelovac:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-automatic-links/

Inspiration for SEO Smart Links originated from the Autolink plugin by Chris Lynch
http://www.planetofthepenguins.com/

License

This file is part of WPA SEO Auto Linker.

WPA SEO Auto Linker is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

WPA SEO Auto Linker is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WPA SEO Auto Linker. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

  1. Upload the complete wpa-seo-auto-linker folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
  3. Use the WPA SEO Auto Linker settings page under settings to change the settings for WPA SEO Auto Linker.
  4. Enjoy the automatically inserted links.

Migrating from SEO Auto Links?
Just deactivate the original plugin. The current version uses the exact same settings table in the database. This means you don’t loose your list of URL’s you have built. We will maintain this functionality till July 2018. Do create a back-up before installation. Better safe than sorry.

  1. Plugin settings page

    Plugin settings page

Where are the settings?

You can find WPA SEO Auto Linker under the WordPress settings menu. If you are also using Yoast, SEOpress Pro, Rankmath, All in One SEO, Schema Pro or SEOquake, you will find the settings in their menu’s too.

What page builders are supported?

  • Gutenberg
  • Elementor (Pro)
  • WP Bakery
  • Divi
  • Zion Builder

Oxygen Builder support is under development. Contact us if you need anything else.

Is this plugin compatible with Yoast?

Yes is is, just like with other SEO plugins. We are working on menu integration so you have our tool sitting next to Yoast’s options.

Is this plugin compatible with SEOpresss Pro?

Yes is is, just like with other SEO plugins. We are working on menu integration so you have our tool sitting next to SEOpro’s options.

Is this plugin compatible with Woocommerce?

Support has not been tested. After the Gutenburg update, we will put our resources on offering Woocommerce support. Meanwhile, leave your experience in the support forum. (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/woocommerce-382/)

BUG FEEDBACK

By Cardno (yurentt) on January 6, 2024

I am a Chinese user, this plugin can only automatically add content with symbols or spaces before and after in Chinese, if there are no symbols or spaces in a piece of content, it will not automatically add links, I hope the author can fix it, thank you

Continually CRashed

By agsays on April 25, 2023

When going through the css it took quite some time only to crash. Several attempts and the porblem continued to occur.

Good Plugin, but it has bugs

By javad Hoseini (javad2000) on December 14, 2020

I like this plugin for its auto-linking feature very much, particularly because we can associate multiple words easily to a single link. However, if we turn on debug mode and warnings in WordPress, we come across the following warning when this plugin is active: /home2/ddarcom/domains/d-dar.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpa-seo-auto-linker/wpa-seo-auto-linker.php on line 13 Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /home2/ddarcom/domains/d-dar.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wpa-seo-auto-linker/wpa-seo-auto-linker-functions.php on line 18

Excellent strategy

By Alexandre Amato (aamato) on June 11, 2020

Please keep evolving. This is an excellent strategy for multiple domains.

Could be nice

By dimal (dimalifragis) on May 13, 2020

This plugin could be nice if it worked right. A couple of verified problems remain unfixed for a very long time ( a year back !! ). Also some old and depreciated code is included. Abandonware.

super easy & amazing SEO plugin

By amir (sanwal) on February 25, 2020

thank you for such an amazing plugin 🙂

The plugin is not compatible with Chinese

By jevona on August 20, 2019

The plugin is not compatible with Chinese, I hope to fix this bug. Thank you for your contribution.

extraordinary THANKYOU

By bhenselmann on August 11, 2019

for adopting and developing this plugin! I´ve used the plugin from Vladimir Prelovac since now, but now I have to change because of php7 support.

Work with UTF8 (GREEK) Language

By Ravikumar Patel (ravipatel) on June 11, 2019

I will happy with this plugin and well replied on time. Now plugin compatible with UTF8 characters.

Awesome

By TerkusCZ on February 9, 2019

The best autolink plugin 🙂 nice work and thank you!

In development

  • Code performance improvements
  • Nofollow option per link instead of everything
  • Custom ALT tag
  • updating translation support
  • Integration with YOAST
  • Integration with SEOpress
  • Open in new tab option
  • Oxygen Builder compatilibity
  • Smarter cache handling

=1.5.3 17-12-2024 =
* Maintenance release to prepare new development

=1.5 22-06-2022 =
* Bugfix

=1.5 22-06-2022 =
* PHP 8.0 compatibility
* Cleaned up PHP notices and warnings as much as possible
* Removed option to open links in new tab, added to development pipeline
* Ignore keywords that are already inside an A tag
* Ignore text in image captions (beta)
* Translation support
* Add our settings to Yoast, SEOpress Pro, Rankmath, All in One SEO, Schema Pro and SEOquake

1.3 10-06-2019

  • Applied a patch from @ravipatel to support special characters like used in the Greek language. Thanks!

1.2 07-06-2019

  • This update is a version bump. We are now restarting active development of this plugin.

1.1 05-04-2018

  • Tested for compatibility WordPress 4.9.5
  • Removed branding on top of the settings page
  • Simplified styling to better fit WordPress defaults
  • Bugfix: deprecated user level management has been replaced

1.0 14-01-2018

  • Bugfix for adding rel=nofollow
  • Bugfix for adding target=_blank

0.2 06-01-2018

  • Security improvements to prevent XSS attacks through the codebase and avoid users corrupting the database
  • Visual style update
  • Changed order of the admin form to reflect most used areas
  • Cleaning up deprecated code

0.1 05-01-2018

  • First release
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