Alinks Plugin Works Great!
I have started using the Alinks plugin, and I really like it.
There are a few other plugins that do similar things. I tried one other one, but then hit upon Alinks and love all the features it has. It is really easy to use.
What this plugin does is, if you have something you want to link to multiple times, it will do the linking for you. I wanted to increase the internal linking of one of my sites. Think of wikipedia. It does a lot of internal linking, which is one reason it ranks so well. (Another reason is that so many people link to wikipedia, of course.)
So I set up the plugin so that, for example, every time I mention “pug” in any post, it will automatically create a link to my “pug dog” page. I have it set up so that it will only link on the first occurrence of the word in the post. You can change this number, but I thought once per post was enough.
Besides internal linking, you can use Alinks for external links. For example, you could use it for affiliate links. Every time you mention, say, “keyword”, you could have it create a link to your affiliate link of your favorite keyword tool. (Hey, not a bad idea! Maybe I’ll do that on this site.
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It will create links for all your previous posts automatically. You don’t have to go into each post and update it, or anything like that.
Alinks has an option for creating Amazon links automatically too. I have not tried that feature yet, but it sounds like a good idea.
I love all the options it gives you. You can set it up to do click tracking on your links. I have not tried that, so I can’t say how well that works. You can decide if the links should open in a new window or not. You can display a little image next to each link. You can enter the title that you want for the link. (This is what you see when you hover your mouse over the link.) You can decide if you want it to be case sensitive when deciding whether to create the link.
Alinks comes with a nice pdf instruction manual that explains everything to you.
And it is all free.
Update: I just read somewhere that Alinks does not work with the latest version of WordPress. I have not updated to the latest version yet, so I don’t know. Hopefully the plugin author will update it.
– Pat B. Doyle





