How to use the post editor tools

Interlinks Suggestions

The Interlinks Suggestions meta-box helps you find articles related to the post being edited. You can enable or disable this meta-box in specific post types with the Interlinks Suggestions Post Types option.

Follow this procedure to receive suggestions:

  1. Save the post being edited (this allows the Interlinks Suggestions meta box algorithm to compare the actual data of the post with the other posts of your website; a non-saved post has no title, no category, etc., and produces no suggestions).
  2. Click the Generate button.
  3. Use one of the recommended posts as an internal link. If you are not satisfied with the result, click again the Generate button (the five suggested posts come randomly from a pool of related posts)

You can tune the algorithm used to find the recommended posts with the options available in the Suggestions tab of your options.

To understand how the algorithm works, consider what follows:

  • The Source Post Types option determines where the algorithm should look for suggestions. If you select, for example, “review” as the post type, you will receive only suggestions that come from posts of the “review” post type.
  • The Results Pool Size option determines the maximum number of results placed in the pool of related posts. The five results displayed each time you click on the Generate button are retrieved randomly from a pool of results, which has, as a maximum size, the value defined with this option.
  • If enabled by selecting “Consider”, the Title option increases the score of an analyzed post each time the title of the post includes a word that is also present in the post being edited.
  • If “Required” is selected, the Categories option tells the algorithm to return only posts that have at least one category in common with the post being edited. If “Consider” is selected, the algorithm increases the score of the analyzed posts that have at least one category in common with the post being edited.
  • The Tags option, if “Required” is selected, tells the algorithm to return only posts that have at least one tag in common with the post being edited. If “Consider” is selected, the algorithm increases the score of the analyzed posts that have at least one tag in common with the being edited.
  • If “Required” is selected, the Post Type option tells the algorithm to return only posts that belong to the same post type of the post being edited. If “Consider” is selected, the algorithm increases the score of the analyzed posts that belong to the post type of the post being edited.

The score of a post is used to rank higher or lower the posts in the overall results of the algorithm. This means that only the posts with the higher score will be included in the pool of results when you have many results.

Please note that the maximum number of posts analyzed by this algorithm is determined by the Limit Posts Analysis option. You might consider increasing this option value if you are planning to examine more posts with this algorithm. You might consider decreasing this option value if you have performance issues and you want to reduce the time required to get the suggestions.

Interlinks Optimization

The Interlinks Optimization meta box can tell you if the number of internal links of the post is optimized.

As with the Interlinks Suggestions meta box, you should save the post being edited in order to get the actual status of the optimization.

To understand what is an “Optimized Post” consider what follows:

  1. The optimal number of interlinks is calculated by dividing the content length for the value defined with the Character per Interlink option.
  2. The minimum number of required interlinks is calculated by subtracting half of the value defined with the Optimization Delta from the optimal number of interlinks.
  3. The maximum number of required interlinks is calculated by adding half of the value defined with the Optimization Delta from the optimal number of interlinks.
  4. If the overall number of internal links (both manual and auto internal links are considered) of the post is included between the minimum number of required interlinks and the maximum number of required interlinks, the post will be considered optimized.

The optimization status of a post is also displayed in the Dashboard menu under the Opt. (Optimization) column, so you will be able to browse through your posts directly in the Dashboard menu and easily find which posts don’t have an optimized number of interlinks.

Please note that the Characters per Interlink default value of 1000, used to determine the optimal number of interlinks of the post, should not be considered as a good or recommended value. The website administrator (or the SEO specialist) should determine the correct value for this important option.

Interlinks Options

The Interlinks Options meta box includes two options:

  • The SEO Power is the base value used to calculate the flow of link juice to the internal links of the post.
  • The Enable AIL option should be used to enable or disable the auto internal links (AIL) only on specific posts. If not manually changed, this option inherits the value of the Enable AIL (Default) option available in the Interlinks -> Options.

Please note that these two options are actually saved only when you save the post with the Publish/Update button.