Internal Link Suggestions
Free AI-powered internal link suggestions. Paste a draft + sitemap (or URL list/CSV), get 3-5 link opportunities with suggested anchor text, reasoning, and placement hints. Powered by AI. 10 free generations per hour per IP. No signup.
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How it works
A short, focused workflow — input, run, read the result.
Paste your draft
Drop the article text, blog post, or page content into the left box. We truncate at 8000 characters for analysis. For longer drafts, paste the most topical section (usually the intro + 2-3 body paragraphs).
Paste your candidate pages
Right box: one URL per line, full sitemap XML, or a CSV with 'url,title' columns. We parse all three formats. 5-50 pages is the sweet spot: enough context for the AI to find matches, small enough to be fast.
Set max suggestions
Default is 5. Drop to 3 for short drafts, raise to 8 for long-form cornerstone content. The AI only returns genuinely relevant matches. It won't pad with weak ones.
Click Find link opportunities
AI reads your draft, ranks every candidate page by topical relevance, and returns 3-5 link suggestions with anchor text, reasoning, and where in the draft each link fits. Copy any individual anchor or all of them at once.
What are internal link suggestions, and why does anchor text matter?
Internal link suggestions match a draft to the pages on your site that genuinely deserve a link. The AI reads both, ranks topical fit, and returns 3 to 5 specific anchors you can drop into the article. The hardest part of internal linking is not finding pages. It is writing an anchor that reads naturally and signals the right topic to Google.
What this internal link suggestions tool does
Every step of matching a draft to your existing pages, ranked by topical fit and anchor quality.
- Draft ingestion — pastes article text up to 8000 characters. For longer pieces, the intro and 2 to 3 body paragraphs is enough to find matches.
- Sitemap parser — accepts plain URL list, sitemap.xml, or CSV with url,title columns. Extracts <loc> entries recursively from sitemap indexes.
- Topical relevance ranking — scores every candidate page against the draft's central topic, not just keyword overlap. Surfaces the strongest matches first.
- Anchor text generation — writes a 2 to 5 word phrase that fits the surrounding sentence. Avoids generic anchors like click here and over-optimized exact-match titles.
- Placement hints — names the specific paragraph where each link fits, with one sentence of reasoning so you know why it earned the suggestion.
- Max suggestions cap — defaults to 5. Drop to 3 for short drafts, raise to 8 for long-form cornerstone content. The AI does not pad with weak matches.
- Source verification — discards any suggestion whose target URL was not in your sitemap. No hallucinated links to pages that do not exist on your site.
Who uses this internal link suggestions tool
Anyone who publishes content faster than they can build internal links, which is most content teams.
You publish 3 posts a week on a 200-article blog and have never done a systematic internal linking pass.
Open each post, run the tool, ship 3 to 5 contextual links per article. Build 30 to 60 internal links per month without a dedicated link-building sprint.
You're auditing a 1000-page site where the average post has 1.4 internal links and a 12% orphan rate.
Generate suggestions for the top 50 traffic-driving posts in one afternoon. Lift average internal link count above 5 per post on the most important pages.
You manage 12 clients and want to ship an internal linking recommendation per blog post as part of your content deliverable.
Standardize the workflow so every post across every client gets 3 to 5 reviewed anchors. Stop sending clients a manual spreadsheet.
You write one long-form post a week and never link back to your older cornerstone content.
Find the 3 to 5 older posts that match the new topic, drop them into the new article, and start reclaiming authority on pages that have decayed.
You're building a content-heavy site in Next.js or Astro and want to suggest related links automatically.
Use the tool during authoring to populate a relatedLinks array in your frontmatter. Render the suggestions in your post template without manual editing.
You have 800 product pages and want to link each one to its category, its 3 cross-sells, and 2 supporting blog posts.
Run the tool per product, ship a complete internal linking template, and stop relying on the CMS default of 'related products' widgets.
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Frequently Asked
Questions
Everything you need to know about internal link suggestions.
We send your draft + your candidate pages to AI with a structured prompt asking it to identify the strongest topical matches. For each match, it generates a short natural anchor (2-5 words) that fits the draft, explains why the page is relevant, and points to the specific paragraph where the link fits. We then sanity-check the response: any suggestion whose target URL wasn't in your input list is discarded, and we cap the results at the maxSuggestions you set.
Three formats work: (1) Plain URL list, one URL per line, the simplest. (2) Sitemap XML, paste the raw output of your-sitemap.xml and we'll extract every <loc>URL</loc> entry. (3) CSV, one row per page with 'url,title' columns, useful if you want to use your real page titles as labels. For URL-only and XML formats, we infer a title from the URL slug (e.g. '/blog/json-ld-tutorial' becomes 'Json Ld Tutorial').
Modern SEO consensus is 3-5 contextual internal links per 1000 words of content, plus 1-2 navigational links (header, footer, related-posts widget). Going above 8-10 contextual links per 1000 words starts to look spammy and dilutes PageRank distribution. The AI's maxSuggestions setting defaults to 5, which is the right number for a typical 1500-2000 word blog post.
Two rules: (1) the anchor should be a natural phrase that fits the sentence, never the exact page title, and (2) it should be specific enough to signal the linked page's topic. Vague anchors like 'click here' or 'read more' are wasted link equity. Over-optimized anchors like 'best SEO agency in Austin Texas' look spammy to Google. The sweet spot is 2-5 words that describe what the linked page is about, e.g. 'structured data guide' or 'JSON-LD tutorial'. Our AI follows this rule by default.
Free, yes. 10 generations per hour per IP, no signup, no daily limit. Privacy, mostly: your draft and sitemap are sent to our API endpoint to call AI, but the AI request runs server-side and we don't log request bodies or use them for training. We do keep an in-memory rate-limit counter (resets on cold start). If you want zero-server internal linking, run our tool on a self-hosted workflow. Open DevTools → Network while you use it: only the analysis call leaves your browser.
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