alinks

By Bradley Charbonneau on December 5, 2007 in Help, Plugins, SEO, WordPress

Alinks (headzoo.com/alinks) is a WordPress plugin that will automatically create links for your site based on keywords you enter. For example, I will write “WordPress” here and because I created a keyword link so that every time I write “WordPress” it will automatically create a link that I specify.

Not only is it a time saver for keywords you use regularly, but it’s important for internal links, too. If I mention “website hosting” on this site, I might want it to always link to my own website hosting page (here). But now that I put “website hosting” as a keyword and made it always link to http://www.likoma.com/hosting.

So who cares? Well, Google cares (about search engine optimization). And if Google cares, you care.

About Bradley Charbonneau

I've done the big corporate thing. I've done the creative writer thing. Now I'm happily in the middle. I like to help small businesses who are interested in "working their website before their website works them." I'm also interested in creating beautiful sites with powerful WordPress themes.

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8 Responses to alinks

Laurie King January 14, 2008 at 4:40 pm #

Love this! Thanks, Bradley.

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James May 16, 2008 at 11:24 pm #

I’ve heard that the hyperlinks with this plugin only load when a page is pulled-up to be viewed. Does this hurt SEO at all?

Also, I heard of another similar plug-in called “WP-Affiliate”. Has anyone tested both WP-Affiliate and Alinks? I’d love to hear a comparison.

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Steven December 24, 2008 at 2:54 am #

That looks like a great plugin but I’m having a problem opening the site. I’ll check it out later. Thanks Bradley.

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Jeremy November 12, 2010 at 11:46 am #

I cannot find aLinks when I search Plugins in WordPress. Can you tell me where to find it and how to install?

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- Bradley Charbonneau November 12, 2010 at 9:10 pm #
  
  Hi Jeremy, I haven’t use it in a while and I can’t find it either. Looks like WP Keyword Link might do the trick. If you use it and like it, comment back here with the scoop. Thanks!
  
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  - The Watermark Group November 14, 2010 at 7:08 pm #
    
    I use one called SEO Smart Links that I like very much. Here is a short review:
    
    http://www.creativestorefront.com/seo-smart-links-plugin/
    
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Andrzej April 21, 2011 at 11:58 am #

Nice to read such articles.

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