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SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.
Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs.
Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.
Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.
How it Works?
SEO Smart Links looks for keyword phrases that match the titles of your posts and pages by default (and you can enable categories and tags matching too). These phrases are then turned into the links. The matching is case insensitive and the original case is preserved.
So If I mention Amazing Grace, which is my theme and also the title of one of my pages, it will be automatically converted into a link.
Everything happens completely transparent, and you can edit the options from the administration settings panel.
Features:
- Find keywords in your posts, pages and comments and link them to your other posts, pages, categories and tags
- Full control with customizable options
- Ignore list for keywords you do not want to link
- Improves your site's interlinking
- Control external links with custom keywords
- Add nofollw attribute or open links in new window
- Caching for speed - make sure you have define('ENABLE_CACHE', true); set in your wp-config.php
Download
Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to change your options
- That is all. You can check your posts for new links.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can discuss all plugin related issues in the wordpress related forums.
How do I correctly use this plugin?
Just install activate it on your blog. SEO Smart links will be default find matching links to your post and pages (if the keyword in your text matches their title).
Default options are enough to get you going. If you want to tweak it, you can always edit the options. Be sure to check "ignore" options where you can state what keywords and phrases not to link.
How do I enable SEO Smart Links cache?
Make sure you have enabled WordPress cache by adding this line to your wp-config.php
define('ENABLE_CACHE', true);
Please be careful when editing this file and always make a backup!
Changelog
v2.1
- Performance optimization and new option to link to cats and tags with used at least n times (thanks Domink Deobald!)
v2.0
- Added the option for case sensitive matching
v1.9
- Various improvements and bug fixes
v1.8.0
- Added support for non-english characters (Unicode)
- Added support for keyword synonyms (in keywords section of the settings screen)
v1.7
- Performance optimization of the plugin. SEO Smart Links causes much lesser strain on the server.
v1.6
- Added option to process only single posts and pages
v1.5
- Added nofollow and new window options
v1.4
- Added option for custom keywrods. No you can specify unlimited numbers of your keywords and url's to link to
v1.3:
- Enabled caching for speeding queries up.
v1.2:
- Added limits options
- Fixed small bugs
Credits
- A chap called Paolo Faustino translated the plugin to Portugese
- Thanks to Chris from http://www.munchweb.com
You can also visit my other WordPress Plugins.
Need help with WordPress SEO? Feel free to contact me.
725 Comments
Hi. Thanks for the great plugin. We are getting some warnings on our WordPress site when running with debug enabled:
Notice: has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.0! Usage of user levels by plugins and themes is deprecated. Use roles and capabilities instead. in D:\Web\WhistleOut.WebUI\Blog\wp-includes\functions.php on line 3321
This is obviously just a warning but a bit annoying because it pops up all over the page when we have this plugin enabled!
It used to work but now I don't even see it in the plugins list. I tried it on several other wordpress sites and the same. We're using the latest vs of WP and your plugin. Any ideas?
@Vladimir for the problem with the image url, seo-smart-links makes it a link, see detail here:
http://www.ipadinfo.nl/3210/apple-voer-voor-media/
Hello Vladimir,
good news for me that your plugin gives all! out going links a nofollow. I would like to know if there will be a version (maybe next update?) where I can decide which one does have a follow link and which one not?
This feature inculded would make it complete :-)
Cheers,
Gypsy
Hi Vladimir,
Nice plugin. I have a question though. I would want all the links in my blog to be "Do Follow" is there a way to turn off the "No Follow"
Hi Vladimir, when can we expect the plugin update with utf8 support? Europe-zone is eagerly waiting for it! :)
Hello! I really like your plugin but it is not converting text that contains & to links, for example "H&M" is it any fix for this?
Hello,
your plugin is great - love it. Nevertheless I have some questions about the nofollow option. Is it possible to define which link has a dofollow and which has a nofollow? All outgoing links have a nofollow - does this mean really all outgoing links from a domain? I mean themes for example have up to 4-5 links - do they also have a nofollow link or does it "only" work by posts and pages? This information would help me very much to define my strategy.
The way it works is it nofollows all outgoing links from a domain in that post.
Vladimir,
The plugin is working great ! It does everything you say it will.... I can't think you enough , you have out done yourself on this one. Anchor texting links in pages to other pages with in the site and out to authority sites is big , for those that don't know......Even bigger is this is all done on the fly now in Word Press , Thanks to Vladimir , Lets all give a hand for Vladimir ( for he is a jolly good fellow)........
Sincerely,
Stephen G.
PS I think I have used some of your other plugins. Anyways Vladimir , please send to smgstuff@gmail.com and put your name in the subject all captial..
Thanks, you will love the new version even more :)
It would be great if we could 'throttle' the linking to say 'only process 1 in 3 posts' (for outgoing links) etc.
That would be amazing.
I have followed the instruction and have the latest version of wordpress installed and cant get this plug-in working. Does it work with the latest version of wordpress?
Hello Vladimir, will you be working for a similar plugin that can be used in the most popular forums? I am all for a paid plugin. And can you please direct to the comments plugin you use here for "subscribe without commenting"?
I have no experience with forum software what so over -but if there is enough interest why not?
Oh yeah; If SEO Smart Links or a similar BuddyPress plugin could generate smart links in BuddyPress forum postings, that would be awesome. Cheers! Graham
I love the plugin. It is simple and it does what it says it does. The only problem I am having with it is that most of my links are dynamic search queries, and the use of .com/x/q?="keyword" becomes .com/x/?= . It cuts off wherever quotes are used. I would really appreciate it if you know of an adjustment I can make to allow for '' " use.
Thank you.
hi there vladimir,
great plugin! I was just looking for this.
I only want to know how to prevent links turning up in my imagenames, this messes up the post.
ciao!
Hi Rico
please send me a concrete example, URL and a way to reproduce it so I can check the problem.
Hi there, plugin does not work here as well. Is the reason for this as well the language code? The page is in German.
Hello Vladimir, thank you for the plugin.
I came across a situation I thought I should bring up with you. I created a group of needed pages that I didn't want to show up as part of the navigation menu. So I added the following line to the header.php file:
Apparently, the script now will not look into these pages for some reason, as it is not producing links with anchor text that is in them. Maybe the above exclusion is telling your script *not* to look into them?
I was wondering if there is a way to force the inclusion of specific ID's, just like we can instruct the script to avoid certain other ones.
The plugin will not look into pages that are in draft or private state - other then this there is no reason to link to them.
The pages I mentioned are live. But I think I may know why the script is not picking up on their "body text" to create links.
The pages are part of a directory and have good content from where to create links from. The directory is created by first setting the categories. Then, the categories (IDs) will be used to create pages -one per cat- with no real content. On these pages, the listings get dumped after the approval of submissions, dynamically. What I think is happening is that the content (listings) is part of the "directory" table in the database and not really part of the "posts" table. Could the script be reading "blank" pages, then?
I imagine that to overcome this I should find a way to map directory descriptions fields to posts or have the script look into the directory table. Big problema! Looks like an extensive mod.
Anyway, the script is great. Just makes me sad that I won't be able to use its powerful attributes to get some juice from the Directory.
Hey, this looks like a great plugin, but I can't get it to work. I'm version WP 3.0.1.
You can't get it to work, because it is currently supporting only Western characters.... With the following version, Vladimir promised, that the plugin will support UTF8 encoding. Which means that all types of characters will be supported - including Cyrillic characters (e.g. Bulgarian language)
Is there any way to have SEO Smart Links to add the nofollow to all external links except the links that I have set in the customer keywords box?
Right now if I check the add nofollow attribute, it adds the nofollow to all external links, but I think since I am adding the links with specific keywords, I actually want the search engines to follow them to actually help with the ranking of my other sites for the specific keyword. Am I missing something? Perhaps this is already available and I am not seeing it?
Hi Marvin
This is implemented in next version where you can also define the HTML template for custom keyword links. Stay tuned it's nearly finished.
Hmm, just installed it on WP 3.0.1 and activated, it doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. How to troubleshoot?
Hi, thanks for the plugin. is it support Hebrew as well?
Should i see automatic links in my post while editing it?
Thanks
The upcoming version will have full UTF8 support, stay tuned
Do you have an ETA on the upcoming version?
That's what we've all been asking :) He'll tell us as soon as it gets out ;)
Hi Vladimir,
My keyword "deneme hastalığı" but seems dosent work.
Can you help me??
Thanks...
Awesome plugin! I love it. Congratulations on your great work on SEO Smart Links.
Unfortunately there seems to be a conflict between it and the Amazon Product In A Post plugin. When I enable SEO Smart Links, my Amazon product post contents disappear if the Amazon PIP setting is set to "Above Post Contents" or "Post Text Becomes Description".
Can't wait for the new version!
Cheers, Graham
hi Vladimir,
thanks for this great plugin.
The only feature I would wish for is the ability to link words within a custom field value. I think WP is being used more and more as CMS and custom fields are definitely one of the better features for that purpose. Checking the output of a custom field and link if necessary would be a great addition.
thanks
Mito
We will have something like this in the next major release of the plugin, stay tuned.
I have 3 blogs and running WP v3.1 and they aren't showing up at all.
Hi Vladimir, great plugin!!
Might have spotted a bug though... we are running WordPress 3.1 with plugin v2.6. Links per page is set to 12. SeoSmartLinks is not linking to some of our pages even though the text and page title are exact match. See "Chesters Hotel and Restaurant" on the following page:
http://www.manchesterunitedhotels.com/hotels/
We have only got "about,home, old trafford" in ignore keywords.
Thanks
Ben
Thanks a lot,I can se the difference now,without having to spend extra hours linking myself and at the end of the day still have some broken links,How ever ,it will be good to see if it is possible to work around the wp-config.php automatically.