How to Improve Linkilo’s Link Suggestions

Linkilo's suggestions are only as good as the keyword and content signals you give it. Here are the levers to pull, roughly in order of impact.

1. Add excluded words

Linkilo ships with common stop-words excluded, but every niche has its own. If your site uses certain words constantly, they'll start polluting suggestions.

For example, we don't exclude the word "Guide" by default — it's sometimes a useful anchor. But if your titles all say "X Guide", you'll see Linkilo suggesting "guide" everywhere.

To add custom exclusions:

1. Go to Linkilo → Settings → Content & Ignored Words
2. Under Words Linkilo should ignore, find the Your stop words field
3. Add the words or phrases you want skipped, one per line
4. Click Save Settings

These stop words are also used when the AI extracts keywords from your posts, so this is the right place to teach Linkilo what to ignore. See How to exclude words and phrases from link suggestions for the full guide. If you want to block a phrase on one specific post only (not site-wide), see Negative Keywords vs Excluded Words instead.

2. Reject bad suggestions — with a reason

This is the lever most people skip. Every suggestion has a Reject button (on the AI Suggestions page it's Reject with Feedback). Clicking it asks Why are you rejecting this suggestion? with reasons such as Poor contextual fit, Anchor text is inappropriate, Target post is in wrong category or Already have similar link, plus an optional note.

Linkilo keeps a record of what you rejected. The exact source → target → anchor combination won't come back, and once you've rejected three different anchors for the same source and target pair, Linkilo stops proposing that pair altogether. The AI Suggestions page shows how many of your decisions it has learned from under AI Learned From.

3. Read the reason labels and the confidence filter

Each suggestion card carries short labels explaining why it was made — Semantic match, Keyword fit, Same topic group, Search demand, Anchor verified, Rules adjusted or Review first — and, in 3.0, a sentence under Why this link makes sense. Suggestions with only a Review first label deserve a closer look before you apply them.

If you're seeing too many weak suggestions, raise the Minimum Confidence Level in Processing Settings on Linkilo → Linking → AI Suggestions (it offers 20% to 80%). If you see too few, lower it. This setting lives on the AI Suggestions page, not in Settings; it applies to manual runs and Autopilot alike.

4. Scope suggestions by category

When you're working in a specific niche, suggestions from unrelated categories add noise. Linkilo has three ways to keep suggestions in the right neighbourhood:

Example

You run a home and garden site with categories: Home, Garden, Backyard.

You're writing "Best ways to add mulch to your lawn".

You also have "Best way to do yoga if you have a lawn outside".

Linkilo sees "Way" and "Lawn" in both — without scoping, it might suggest linking between them. That's not useful.

Fix for one run: on Linkilo → Linking → AI Suggestions, open Processing Settings and pick a category under Categories (the default is All Categories) before you click Build Queue.

Fix site-wide: open Linkilo → Settings → Content & Ignored Words → Categories to skip and tick categories that should never appear as link targets. Yoga is skipped permanently and the Mulch post never sees it as a candidate.

Fix per post: open the post in the editor and use the Suggest based on: toggles in the AI Link Suggestions box — Title, Keywords, Categories, Previous anchors — to choose which signals Linkilo should use for that post. The choice is saved per post.

5. Build structure with keywords

The most leveraged fix: give Linkilo a richer keyword set per post. Use all four sources:

• Custom keywords you add yourself
• Search Console keywords Linkilo pulls from Google
• Rank Math focus keywords if you use Rank Math
• Yoast focus keywords / keyphrases if you use Yoast

The richer the keyword set, the more relevant the suggestions. As a bonus, this work helps you spot keywords you should be ranking for — Linkilo becomes both a linking tool and a content strategy tool.

6. Write down linking rules

If you keep seeing the same unwanted pattern, turn it into a rule the AI reads before it suggests a link — for example a maximum number of links per section, or a phrase never to use as an anchor.

1. Go to Linkilo → Settings → AI Settings
2. Scroll to step 4 Linking rules and click + Add New Rule
3. Give it a Rule Name, a Type (Number, Decimal, Yes/No or Text), a Value and a short Description, then click Add Rule
4. On the AI Suggestions page, keep Follow AI Rules from Settings ticked so runs honour your rules

Leave this empty until you've reviewed a few batches of suggestions — rules are for patterns you've actually seen.

Other small wins

• Re-run after changes. Settings changes don't retroactively apply until the next run. Click Build Queue on Linkilo → Linking → AI Suggestions (or wait for the next Autopilot pass) after edits.
• Keep your content index fresh. Every suggestion comes from the index Linkilo builds in Linkilo → Settings → AI Settings, step 3 Process your content. Click Start AI Content Processing once after setup, and again (with Re-process Already Processed Posts ticked under Advanced) after large rewrites or a model change.
• Set the right content language. See How to change Linkilo to a different language. Wrong language = wrong word matching = noisier suggestions.
• Enable the right post types. See How to add custom post types to Linkilo. If your products / recipes / courses aren't enabled, they can't be suggested as link destinations.

Last reviewed for Linkilo 3.0.0 (October 2026).