The impact internal linking has on your content pages' SEO performance cannot be overestimated. The more content pages your website has, the harder it is to manually perform internal linking.
Surfer’s Automated Internal Linking Tool helps you strengthen your website’s structure by quickly inserting contextual internal links.
It’s available in your AI articles, Content Audit drafts, or standalone Content Editor queries under the same button.
Semantic Internal LinkingSemantic Internal Linking is available as an option only if:
You have connected your Google Search Console (GSC) account to Surfer.
You have created a Content Audit (CA) project for the domain from which you want to insert internal links.
Basic Internal Linking (legacy)This option allows you to insert internal links without a Content Audit project, but you still need the Google Search Console connection.
In this case, Surfer will offer a simpler linking experience, using basic keyword and URL matching without semantic analysis.
If you’re using Basic Linking, our UI will allow you to configure a Content Audit project for more advanced (semantic) linking.
Open your Content Editor.
Select the Internal Links button on the guidelines column.
Select your domain from the drop-down menu (If you haven’t connected your Google Search Console account yet, instead, you’ll be asked to connect one).
Select Request links to get a list of semantically relevant links from the chosen domain (only available if you have a Content Audit project for the selected domain).
Wait for the suggestions to finish loading.
Review the suggested links. Select which ones you’d like to get inserted into your document.
You can also add your own links manually through the + Add link option at the end of the list. Select the Insert x links button to proceed.
Review suggested edits:
- The list on the right side of the screen will show you which links were successfully added in the relevant place, and for which the system couldn’t find a proper place.
- Use navigation arrows at the bottom to quickly move between suggestions. They should appear highlighted. Select a suggestion to either edit it or decline it.
Select Accept if you’re happy with the result or Cancel to abort the link insertion entirely.
This feature is included in the Pro, Peace of Mind, and Enterprise plans. Visit our pricing to learn more.
Once the tool inserts internal links into an article, they behave like any other URL. You can edit a URL's anchor text or delete it.
You'd keep getting internal links if our AI finds relevant content pages on your website on any consecutive run. However, running it once should suffice in almost all cases since, as our study shows, the relevance of the suggestions gets worse with any consecutive run, and having more than 10 internal links in an article doesn't boost its SEO performance exponentially, as the first 10.
Yes, if you prefer to use the Basic Internal Linking tool, select your domain, click the three dots icon, then select Insert Basic Links.
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