Questions people ask before they buy.

Linkilo is a paid WordPress plugin that does the link work your SEO plugin leaves to you. It reads everything you have published, suggests the internal links that should exist, writes them into your posts after you approve them, finds and repairs broken links, manages redirects and 404s, logs which bots crawl which pages, and maps your content into topic clusters. Every module is on the features page.

It does not write title tags, schema or sitemaps. Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress keep doing that, and Linkilo runs alongside them.

Two engines run side by side. The literal-match engine is free and always on: it finds posts that share phrases and checks the anchor exists word for word in your draft. The AI stages add embeddings, search intent, entities and cluster position, and they run on your own OpenAI key. OpenAI bills you directly, typically about $0.20 per hundred posts on a first pass, and Linkilo never marks it up or caps it.

Every suggestion from either engine waits for your approval and shows the score that produced it. How a suggestion is built.

Yes. Linkilo ships an MCP connection, so you can connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask which posts have no inbound links, which anchors are over-used, or what Googlebot fetched this week, and get the answer from your real data. It is off by default and starts read-only when you switch it on. How the assistant connection works.

Four yearly plans, priced by site count: $59 for one site, $149 for three, $279 for ten, and $499 for unlimited sites. Every feature is on every plan; the only thing a tier changes is how many sites you can activate. The AI stages run on your own OpenAI key and are billed by OpenAI, not by us.

The pricing page has the plans and the 30-day money-back guarantee, which has no conditions attached.

The plugin is paid and there is no trial. Three things stand in for one. The free tools on this site run link-equity, anchor, redirect-chain and broken-link checks against any URL with no account. The interactive demo is every admin screen, recreated from the plugin’s own templates, so you can click through the real thing before you buy. And the 30-day money-back guarantee means a real test on your own site costs you nothing but the afternoon. Free tools and features.

No. Plans are yearly, because the plugin is updated often and the crawl log, bot list and AI integrations need maintaining. If your licence lapses the plugin keeps working; you lose updates and support, not features.

A WordPress site on hosting that allows third-party plugins, on a maintained WordPress release and a supported PHP version. The first scan runs in the background in capped batches, so a large archive takes longer but does not time out. The getting-started guide lists the current minimum versions; if your server is older, ask support before buying and they will tell you straight.

Install the ZIP under Plugins, activate, enter your licence, pick the post types to include, and start the first scan. That is a few minutes of your time. The scan itself depends on how much you have published; nothing is written to any post while it runs, and the suggestion queue, orphan list, anchor report and broken-link queue fill in as it goes. Add an OpenAI key whenever you want the AI stages; nothing has to be redone.

Because it is a paid plugin, and WordPress.org only lists free ones. You download the ZIP from your account after purchase and upload it under Plugins, then Add New. Updates arrive inside WordPress like any other plugin for as long as the licence is active.

Both. Internal and external links are checked, grouped by target with every affected post, and repaired in bulk: replace the URL, unlink, or swap in a Wayback Machine copy for a page that is gone. A rollback snapshot is written before any post is touched, and a link that failed once is rechecked rather than treated as dead. The broken link checker.

Yes: Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Avada and others. The suggestion panel lives on the WordPress edit screen rather than inside the builder canvas, and links are written into the stored content, so anything that saves to the post shows them. Test one representative page first if you rely on custom widgets or dynamic content. The page-builder guide.

Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress. There is no overlap on titles, schema or sitemaps. The two places to decide who does what are redirects and auto-linking: pick one plugin for each so two rules never fire on the same URL. Running Linkilo next to Rank Math spells out the four toggles. Google Search Console connects separately for URL inspection and the cannibalization report.

The front end loads nothing for internal links; they are plain HTML in your posts. The related-posts and link-preview modules load one small script only on pages where they are switched on. The crawl logger adds a single lightweight database insert per bot visit and nothing for human visitors. Analysis runs in the background, and crawl-log retention is configurable so the table stays bounded.

Both suggest internal links and wait for your approval. The differences are what runs before a suggestion reaches you, who pays for the AI, and how much of the link layer one licence covers. Link Whisper’s AI runs through its own credit packs on top of the licence; Linkilo runs on your OpenAI key at cost, shows the score behind every suggestion, and includes redirects, 404s, crawl logs, clusters and the assistant connection. Link Whisper is ahead on Search Console keywords, cross-site linking and language coverage. The full comparison, with prices side by side.

A keyword rule engine links the words you typed into it, usually at render time, so the links vanish when the plugin is deactivated. That is fine for a small site with a short keyword list. Linkilo has the same rules with a dry run, writes the links into your content so they stay, and adds a suggestion layer that finds the connections no keyword list contains. The Juicer comparison is honest about where it is the cheaper buy.

If you audit sites from raw server logs, keep it; it sees cached and CDN hits that never reach WordPress. Linkilo records bot visits inside WordPress as they happen, verified, with no log files and no desktop app, and alerts you when Googlebot goes quiet. Most site owners never get raw logs from their host, which is the problem it solves. What each one sees and misses.

Nobody can promise a ranking, and this page will not. What Linkilo changes is measurable on its own terms: pages that had no inbound links get them, dead links get fixed, redirect chains get flattened, anchors stop repeating, and you can see whether Google and the AI crawlers actually fetched a page. Those are the conditions rankings depend on, and they are the part of the job that was not getting done.

Any WordPress site with enough published content that linking it by hand has become a task nobody finishes: blogs, editorial sites, resource libraries, affiliate sites, businesses publishing around connected topics, and agencies running several of those. A site with a dozen pages can link itself by hand. For stores, directories or heavily customised builds, check the post types you care about in the demo first.

The honest answer is: the time you currently spend searching your own site for something to link to, re-reading a post to make sure the link is not already there, checking the anchor is not used elsewhere, and finding out about dead links from a reader. Linkilo does that part and hands you a queue to approve. How much that adds up to depends on how much you publish, so measure one linking session before and one after.

An active licence includes updates and support. The team answers Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm Eastern. Start with the knowledge base, and when you write in, include your WordPress, PHP and plugin versions and the steps to reproduce; never send passwords or API keys. Contact support.

Anyone not on WordPress, or on hosting that blocks third-party plugins. Anyone with a handful of pages they can link by hand in an afternoon. And anyone who wants a plugin to replace editorial judgement: every suggestion still needs a human to click approve, and that is by design.

They stay. Every link Linkilo adds is ordinary HTML written into the post, so cancelling, deactivating or uninstalling changes nothing in your content. What stops is what needs the plugin running: hover previews, the related-posts module, redirect rules, and the crawl log. Redirects can be exported before you go. The cancellation guide.

The literal-match engine is language-agnostic and the interface ships in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic, chosen in settings. The language guide covers the current list. There is one language setting per site, so if you publish in several languages with a translation plugin, ask support about your setup before buying and check that suggestions point at the right language version.