Find orphan content, broken internal links, and link suggestions built from what each page is about - not just its title.
Getting started
- Tools → Internal Links → Dashboard: run the first scan. It indexes every internal link on the site.
- Orphan Posts: content nothing links to - your quickest SEO wins. Each heading shows how many posts match; the first 100 orphans and 25 posts with few outbound links are listed. A link from a post to itself does not count.
- Suggestions: for each post, ranked opportunities to link to related content, with the anchor text found in your actual copy. Apply inserts the link at the first occurrence in the post's visible text (never inside image alt text, captions, headings, code samples, a bare URL or email address such as an embed's URL, shortcodes, block settings or an existing link), without touching anything else. A suggestion that was already applied or dismissed (for example from another browser tab) is refused. If the post cannot be saved, the suggestion stays pending and the error is shown. The page it links to leaves the Orphan Posts list straight away. Keywords are matched as whole words only ("cat" never matches inside "category"), in languages that put spaces between words, in any script. Languages written without spaces between words, such as Chinese, Japanese and Thai, are not matched. Dismiss is remembered: that page is not suggested for that post again when suggestions are regenerated.
How suggestions are found and ranked
For each page you could link to, the plugin builds candidate anchors from its distinctive terms: phrases of one to three words from its title, and the words its content is most about (by TF-IDF across your posts). It looks for them as whole words in the post's linkable text. A single word is only used when it is one of the page's main terms, at least four letters long, not shared by most of your posts (so common words such as "garden" on a gardening site are not suggested on their own), used at least twice in the page when it comes from the content rather than the title, and when the two posts also have another distinctive word in common. Each post is checked against up to 100 of your newest pages, with a fixed amount of work per post, so large sites stay fast.
The candidates are then scored by TF-IDF document similarity across your content - the genuinely related page outranks one whose title merely appears in the text. One anchor is only ever offered for one page, and each page gets at most one suggestion per post. Password-protected posts are left out of suggestions, as the post linked from and as the page linked to. Optionally, add your own AI API key (OpenAI, Anthropic or Google) under Settings and the front-runners are re-ranked for editorial relevance: one request per post each time suggestions are generated, including every scheduled full scan, your key stored encrypted, no account with us needed. The key belongs to the provider it was entered for: if you change provider without entering a new key, the saved key is removed and the Settings screen asks for the new provider's key. Without a key, the built-in similarity scoring applies.
Link Health
The Dashboard lists internal links from published posts to a page that is trashed, deleted, a draft, pending or scheduled. They stay listed on every scan, including the scheduled one, until you fix the link or the page is published again (a restored page comes back as a draft, so it is listed until you publish it). A link to a page that was deleted before the plugin ever scanned the linking post cannot be traced back to a page, unless it uses the page's ID (?p=123).
Settings
- Post types to scan and auto-scan on save. Only published posts of these types count: a post that is unpublished, made private, trashed or deleted drops out of the link counts straight away, and the pages it linked to are recounted.
- Full Scan Frequency: daily or weekly. Changing it moves the background scan to the new schedule, with the first run one day or one week later.
- Minimum Keyword Words: the fewest words for the phrases copied from a target's title as written (the full title, and a shorter phrase of its main words). Anchors built from a page's distinctive terms (above) can be shorter; they are held to the distinctiveness rules instead.
- Exclude Categories: posts in these categories are left out of scanning, suggestions (as the post being linked from or the page being linked to), the orphan and low-outbound lists, and the dashboard's orphan count. The lists and the count change straight away; the link counts of pages those posts linked to catch up at the next full scan (or run one from the Dashboard). The same applies when you remove a post type.
- The AI ranking section, and the delete-data-on-uninstall opt-in.
Data & privacy
The link index and suggestions live in your database. With AI ranking enabled, each request sends the source post's title and up to about 1,500 characters of its text (a shorter post is sent whole), plus the title, a short extract and the proposed anchor of each candidate page, to the provider you chose - and nowhere else. Requests are sent again on every scheduled full scan. Password-protected posts are never sent. Uninstall keeps your data by default.
Uninstall
Deleting the plugin keeps all its data by default, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. To remove everything on uninstall, tick Delete all data on uninstall in the plugin's settings first (this sets the dragoninternallinks_delete_data_on_uninstall option).