Adding internal links to your content pays dividends when it comes to both engaging your human visitors and boosting your rankings in Google and other search engines.

However, as your WordPress site grows, it can be hard to manage your internal linking strategy. Finding internal link opportunities is difficult, and it’s easy to miss out on good spots for internal links.

In this Internal Link Juicer review, I’m going to share more about how this WordPress plugin helps you automatically insert internal links in your content…but in a smart way that ensures varied anchor texts and keeps Google happy.

Keep reading to learn more about its features, as well as see a hands-on look at how it works.

Internal Link Juicer Review: The Feature List

The high-level feature is that Internal Link Juicer helps you automatically insert internal links in your content. You can associate your posts, pages, etc. with certain key phrases and then Internal Link Juicer will use those phrases to add internal links in other posts.

The most notable feature, though, is that Internal Link Juicer gives you tools to automatically vary the anchor text. Some other automatic internal link plugins just repeat the same anchor text(s) over and over, which looks shady to Google and can be awkward for human visitors.

The way that Internal Link Juicer approaches things helps you avoid that pitfall, while also giving you lots of other options to control where/when you add internal links.

Beyond that, it also comes with other useful features like:

• Adding your own custom internal or external links to use for automatic linking.
• Detailed link analytics to analyze inbound links, outbound links, and anchor text distribution.

Internal Link Juicer Pricing

Internal Link Juicer comes in both a free version at WordPress.org as well as a premium version with more features.

The free version offers most of the core features that I discussed above. Most sites will probably be fine with just the free version, at least to start.

Then, the premium version lets you:

• Create your own custom link targets (internal or external).
• View the full analytics reporting dashboard (the free version only lets you see the top 10 in any category)
• Factor in URLs that you’ve already manually linked to. For example, if you’ve already added a manual internal link, Internal Link Juicer won’t add another automatic one.
• Control which user roles can access internal link settings.
• Access more options for controlling where/when internal links should be added

Here are the pricing plans:

• 1 site – $69.99 annually or $249.99 lifetime
• 5 sites – $149.99 annually or $349.99 lifetime
• 10 sites – $189.99 annually or $669.99 lifetime

How Internal Link Juicer Works On a Live Site

For reference, I’m using the premium version on my test site. But again, most of the core features are also available in the free version at WordPress.org.

Once you install and activate the plugin, it gives you a welcome wizard to help you quickly get up and running:

The plugin isn’t super complex, but it’s a nice bit of onboarding and it helps explain some of the key features.

Associate Keywords With Content

The basic idea with Internal Link Juicer is that:

• You associate keywords with a piece of content in the editor. You have some smart options here.
• Internal Link Juicer uses those keywords to link to that piece of content in other posts, pages, etc.

So to get started, you’ll first want to assign keywords to the post that you want to link to.

To do that, open the WordPress editor. Then, look for the new Internal Links option in the Document sidebar:

The most notable and important feature here is the Insert gaps between keywords option. This is what lets you ensure varied anchor text distribution, which is a problem with a lot of other internal linking plugins.

A “gap” is the number of words between the other words in your chosen key phrase. You get three options:

• Minimum – {+X} – there must be at least this number of words between the words in your phrase. This helps you absolutely enforce anchor text distribution because your exact match will never trigger if you set the minimum above zero.
• Exact – {X} – there must be exactly this number of words between. No more or less.
• Maximum – {-2} – there cannot be more than this number of words between.

You can use the tool to generate the right code and you include the code between the key phrases where you want to make the gap:

Let’s look at an example to illustrate why this feature is so useful. I’ll show an example phrase using the gap tool, as well as some real-world phrases that would or would not trigger an internal link.

Speed {+2} WordPress

Two-word minimum gap:

• Speed up WordPress – NO LINK – only one word gap (“up”)
• Speed up your WordPress site – LINK – two word gap (“up your”)
• “Enhance the speed of your self-hosted WordPress site” – LINK – three word gap (“of your self-hosted”)

Again, the benefit is that, by using these gaps, you’ll be able to ensure keyword diversity without lifting a finger.

Whenever possible, I would recommend using gaps instead of exact match keywords.

Internal Link Juicer Automatically Inserts Keywords

Now, Internal Link Juicer will use those keywords (and the associated gaps) to add internal links to this post in other content.

Here’s a real example…

Here’s what my test post looks like in the editor – you can see that I didn’t insert any links yet, but I did include a phrase that would meet my keyword gap requirements:

And here’s what it looks like on the front-end – you can see that Internal Link Juicer correctly added the link:

Success! 

Now, let’s look at some of the other settings that you get to control how your internal links function.

Internal Link Juicer Settings

To access additional settings, you can go to Internal Links → Settings.

In the General tab, you can:

• Choose which user roles can edit keywords.
• Select the index generation mode (this feature is currently under development – it mainly affects performance).

In the Content tab, you get a lot of options to control where/when to insert links.

At the top, you can whitelist or blacklist certain terms or types of content:

Below that, you can configure several important settings:

• Order for configured keywords – if multiple phrases could trigger the same internal link, you can choose which to give priority. For example, you could prioritize the longest phrase or the first phrase.
• Maximum amount of links per post – the maximum number of internal links to include in this post.
• Maximum frequency – the maximum number of internal links for a specific piece of content. For example, if you set it to “1”, each post will get at most one internal link.
• Exclude HTML areas from linking – for example, exclude headlines, bolded text, tables, image captions, blockquotes, and more.
• Consider manually created links – factor in internal links that you’ve manually added. For example, if you already manually linked to a post, Internal Link Juicer would not add its own link if you set the maximum frequency to “1”.

Finally, the Links tab lets you set up the template for your regular links and custom links (more on those in a second).

For example, if you wanted to open links in a new tab, you could set that up here:

Custom Links

Custom links are a useful feature that lets you set up custom internal or external links to automatically insert in your content.

For example, you could link to a landing page that you created with Leadpages.

You can also include external links – for example, affiliate links.

To create a custom link, you go to Internal Links → Custom Links → Add link.

Then, you can add any URL that you want to link to, configure a few basic settings, and add keywords just like I showed you before:

Link Analytics

To analyze how effective your internal link efforts are, Internal Link Juicer comes with its own analytics tool that lets you see:

• The number of incoming and outgoing links in each piece of content.
• Anchor text distribution.

You can view the analytics by going to Internal Links → Dashboard.

The Link statistics tab shows you the incoming and outgoing link numbers:

If you click on one of the numbers, you can see the exact posts and anchor texts. For example, here are the two outgoing links in one of my posts:

If you go to the Anchor text statistics tab, you can see the anchor text distribution. If you click on the number, you’ll also be able to see each post where that anchor text is used:

Final Thoughts on Internal Link Juicer

Being able to automatically insert internal links in your content is incredibly useful. However, many of the automatic internal link plugins suffer from the flaw of repetitive anchor text, which isn’t ideal.

The feature that I most like about Internal Link Juicer is that it lets you avoid that with its keyword gaps tool. Beyond that, you can also prioritize diversity by telling the plugin to always use the phrase with the most words.

By taking advantage of these features, you can ensure anchor text diversity without any manual effort on your part, which is pretty neat.

If you want to test it out, you can get started with the free version at WordPress.org.

Then, consider upgrading to the premium version to access all of the features.

About Colin Newcomer

Colin Newcomer is a freelance blogger for hire with a background in SEO and affiliate marketing. He helps clients grow their web visibility by writing primarily about digital marketing, WordPress, and B2B topics.

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If you want to improve your WordPress site’s SEO and user experience, including relevant internal links in your content is a great way to benefit your website when it comes to both human visitors and search engines.

However, finding internal links to add to your content can be difficult, which is why you’ll want to read our Internal Link Juicer review to learn how this tool can help you out.

In a nutshell, Internal Link Juicer helps you automatically insert internal links to your content in a smart way, like varying the anchor text and limiting how many internal links you use.

Overall, I think that Internal Link Juicer is a useful tool and it includes some smart features to avoid the problems that some other automatic internal link plugins have.

Keep reading for a hands-on look at how this plugin works…

Why Use Internal Links?

Using internal links helps benefit your website in a few different ways:

• SEO – most people know that getting links from other websites is beneficial, but including your own links to your most important content also helps Google rank your content.
• Engagement – internal links can draw people deeper into your website which helps with engagement metrics like bounce rate and time on site.
• User experience – internal links make it easier for human visitors to find content that they’re interested in and that is relevant to the post that they’re currently reading, which improves their experiences on your website.

Basically, internal links are a great thing to use on your site, which is why you’ll notice that most of our blog posts here at WPLift include internal links (like that link to our SEO tips post above).

But, as I mentioned above, internal links can be time-consuming to add to your content, which is where Internal Link Juicer comes into play.

Internal Link Juicer Review: The Feature List

You know the high-level details already – Internal Link Juicer helps you automatically insert internal links in your content.

Now, let’s get into how it actually does that, because that’s the most interesting thing here.

See, some of the other automatic internal link solutions out there are kind of dumb – they just use the same anchor text over and over (or same set of anchor texts, if you’re lucky), which makes it look like you’re trying to trick Google.

With Internal Link Juicer, you also get tools to avoid that pitfall while still keeping things automated.

You can:

• Set up a minimum or maximum gap in your key phrases to ensure variable anchor text (you’ll see this in action). You can even force this so that you can guarantee anchor text variety.
• Limit your internal links to specific types of content.
• Set up custom templates for your internal links.
• Set caps on the number of overall internal links or internal links to specific posts.

There are also lots of smaller features that come into play, which you’ll see as I take you through how the plugin works.

Hands-On With Internal Link Juicer

Now that you know what Internal Link Juicer does, let’s go hands-on and I’ll show you how it works.

For reference, Internal Link Juicer comes in both a free version and a premium version. I’m using the free version at WordPress.org the review, but you’ll be able to see some of the premium features in the interface.

When you first launch Internal Link Juicer, it gives you an interactive tutorial to help you figure everything out, which is a nice bit of onboarding:

Associating Keywords With Posts

To get started, you’ll first want to associate keywords with your posts. These are the keywords that Internal Link Juicer will use to link to this post when you’re writing other posts.

For example, let’s say that you have a post on how to optimize WordPress images.

You’d then use the Internal Links section in the editor sidebar to add keywords like:

• Optimize images
• Compress images
• Shrink images
• Etc.

The most powerful feature here is the ability to insert gaps between keywords. This is what lets you vary your keyword anchors.

This feature lets you specify a minimum, exact, or maximum gap between keywords. For example, if you set the gap between keywords equal to a maximum of “2”, then “compress images” would still trigger for a written phrase like:

• “Compress your WordPress images” (2 word gap)
• “Compress your images” (1 word gap)
• Etc.

This way, you can still keep your anchor links relevant while also ensuring diversity, which is important to keep Google happy.

If you set a minimum keyword gap, you can even guarantee variety because the link will not insert for the exact match keyword.

You’ll want to add keywords like this for every post that you write – make it part of your normal publication process.

Configuring General Plugin Settings

Once you’ve set up your keywords, you can go to Internal Links → Settings to set up some plugin-wide settings.

The settings are divided into three tabs.

With the premium version, the General tab lets you control access to which user roles can manage keywords (like those I showed you in the previous section):

In the Content tab, you can choose what content is eligible to have automatic links inserted. You can also set up limits for how often to include internal links and where to include them in content.

At the top, you can:

• Choose which post types to include internal links in
• Add a whitelist so that certain taxonomies can link directly to another post (paid)
• Blacklist pieces of content that should never include automatic internal links
• Blacklist terms that should not be used for internal linking (paid)

With the premium version, you also get shortcodes to exclude specific portions of your content from having internal links.

Further down, you can configure how links function like:

• Which keywords get preference for internal links. For example, you can prioritize longer keyword combinations to ensure a more varied anchor text distribution.
• Set a maximum number of total internal links per post. E.g. only three internal links max.
• Set a maximum number of links per linked-to post. E.g. Post A can have one link, Post B can have one link, etc.
• Exclude internal links from certain areas, like your headings or other areas (bolded text, tables, image captions, etc.). Some restrictions require the paid version.
• Factor in internal links that you’ve manually included (paid).

Finally, the Links tab lets you set up the template for internal links. For example, you could use this feature to automatically add UTM tracking parameters or open links in a new tab:

Viewing Internal Link Statistics

Once you’ve set everything up, Internal Link Juicer will start automatically inserting internal links according to your preferences.

To keep track of everything, you can go to Internal Links → Dashboard to see:

• Which posts have received the most internal links
• Which posts have the most internal links to other posts
• The most used anchor text for links, as well as the frequency

Internal Link Juicer Pricing

The core Internal Link Juicer plugin that I used for this review is available for free at WordPress.org.

If you want access to the premium features, the developer offers monthly, one-year, and lifetime licenses for different numbers of sites:

• Single site – 8.35 per month / $69.99 per year / $249.99 for a lifetime license
• Five sites – 34.60 per month / $289.99 per year / $969.99 for a lifetime license
• Unlimited sites – 107.99 per month / $899.99 per year / $3,299.99 for a lifetime license

I find the prices for multiple site licenses to be quite high for the WordPress space. However, most sites will be fine with the free version at WordPress.org, so I don’t think that’s a big drawback.

Final Thoughts

If you want a solution to help you automatically include internal links in your content, I think that Internal Link Juicer is a great option.

My favorite thing about this plugin is that it lets you set up those keyword gaps to vary anchor text and also prioritize those types of anchor text when inserting internal links. I think that’s one of the key things that differentiates this plugin from other solutions.

If you set a minimum keyword gap requirement, you can pretty much guarantee that you’ll have a varied anchor text distribution, which will make your internal link strategy look much more natural.

The premium version is a bit pricey if you need to use it on multiple sites, but I think most webmasters will be fine with the free version,

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