Linkilo 2.8 - IS NOW LIVE! GO UPDATE!
🚀 New
Client Report Builder — agencies build reusable, client-ready reports: pick sections, set detail level, auto plain-English summaries, download or schedule daily/weekly/monthly.
Wayback Machine fixes — repair a dead external link with a working archived copy in one click.
Centralized email alerts — daily/weekly digests when broken links, 404 spikes, or orphan pages show up.
Exact-match + punctuation auto-linking — finally link legal codes, model numbers, and citations (e.g. Cal. Civ. Code § 1234).
Redirect importers — one-click import from Rank Math, Yoast, or Redirection.
Smart inbound-link engine — rebuilt "Add Inbound Links": ranks opportunities (Strong/Good/Fair), suggests anchor text, flags link gaps.
✨ Improved
Smarter broken-link sorting — separates truly dead links from redirects and login walls, so far fewer false alarms.
One-click chain flattening — collapse A→B→C redirects into a single direct link.
Dashboard face-lift — six reporting pages aligned into one cohesive, modern look.
Auto-link on-publish toggle — the always-on rule application is now a setting you can switch off.
Plain-English metrics — e.g. "your slowest pages take 1.24s (slowest 1 in 20 requests)" instead of "P95 = 1.24s."
🛠️ Fixed
"Perform Scan" freeze — corrupt scan code that randomly hung the scanner.
Settings reset bug — saving one section no longer wipes checkboxes in another.
Empty Historical Data charts — blank graphs / zero counts when data was present.
Safer DB queries — keyword strings now escaped in the scanner reset path (security fix).
License disconnect — no longer self-deactivates on a brief server connection hiccup.
Linkilo v2.8 is COMING SOON! — and the Broken Links checker is going to be a fix tool, not just a finder.
Find → prioritize → fix, without leaving WordPress:
🔍 Scans links, images, and embedded videos — with a confirm-retry that kills the usual false positives
📊 Sorts broken links by the page's Search Console traffic, so you fix the costly ones first
🛠️ One-click Fix panel: live internal swap, content search, 301, Wayback fallback, or remove-and-keep-text
🤖 AI picks a real page from your site — it can't invent a URL, so a fix never 404s
⚡ Auto-Fix clears the whole list — review first or auto-apply, with one-click undo
📬 Email reports built in — no SMTP plugin required
The detection you already trust, plus the entire fixing half nobody else automates.
Want to know how AI is crawling your site?
Are users using AI tools to browse your content in real-time?
The data in the image shows a massive, undeniable shift in how LLMs interact with websites. It’s no longer just about background bots scraping for future models—it’s about active user intent.
Look at how the "Crawl Insights (LLM Era)" break down:
User-Fetched is dominating (87%): A staggering 633 hits didn't come from automated scrapers, but from end-users actively triggering real-time lookups inside ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants.
AI Search (7%): 53 hits from search-focused bots fetching pages to answer live queries.
AI Training (6%): Just 45 hits from bots scraping content for training data.
The Big Takeaway: Your audience is increasingly using AI as a personalized browser to consume your data on demand. If you aren't tracking these anomalies (like the massive spikes in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity traffic shown at the bottom of the log), you are missing the true scope of your modern web traffic.
How are you optimizing your content for the LLM era? 👇
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🚀 Linkilo 2.7 is live!
This is our biggest release yet. Here's what's new:
New Dashboard with Health Score — Instantly see your site's health and get auto-flagged for orphan pages, broken links, and thin content.
Automated 404 Rescue — Delete a post? We'll automatically redirect visitors to your homepage or a related category so you never lose traffic.
Dedicated AI Dashboard — All your automated linking stats, stored suggestions, and processing history in one centralized hub.
Manual Post Profiles — Tell the AI what you're writing (Review, Guide, etc.) right inside the editor for laser-targeted suggestions.
Smarter AI Linking — The AI now trims messy anchor text intelligently ("the best running tips" → "running tips"), understands sentence boundaries, and handles plurals naturally.
Massive Speed Boost — We deleted nearly 2MB of old code. Your WordPress admin will feel noticeably faster.
Rock-Solid Background Scanning — No more frozen screens or timeouts on large sites. The AI now runs in safe, small chunks.
Plain English Settings — We rewrote ~50 confusing labels into simple language. "Add nofollow" is now "Tell Google not to follow."
Plus a complete settings redesign, custom ignored words list, visual crawl badges, step-by-step tutorials, and major bug fixes (including that nasty database bloat issue — with an automatic cleanup script included).
Linkilo — The Big May 2026 Update - COMING SOON
We have completely overhauled how Linkilo works under the hood. This update makes our link suggestions much smarter, prevents the plugin from repeating bad suggestions, fixes background crashes on strict web hosts, and introduces a beautiful, easy-to-read Settings dashboard.
The button didn't change.
Everything behind it did.
Here's what one link suggestion now passes through:
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1. Canonical keyword ownership
Decides which post truly "owns" a keyword before linking.
2. Post profile classification
Labels every post by format, role, topic, entities.
3. Five-layer anchor validation
No concessive starters. No hanging modifiers. No mid-word slicing.
4. Subtype-conflict guard
Stops "analog hygrometer" from linking to a smart hygrometer post.
5. Anchor-target scope matching
The anchor's words must live in the target's vocabulary.
6. Drop-on-failure reranker
First target fails? Swap in a better one.
7. LLM verifier with paragraph context
Sees ±200 chars around the sentence. Three-way verdict.
8. Rejection ledger
Every "Reject" you click trains the next run.
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**Eight layers. One button. Zero visible to the user.**
That's what a mature product looks like.
Not more features. More work between the click and the result.
What's the most over-engineered part of your product? ↓
P.S. The bulk processor now runs without wp-cron. Works on every host. That alone took a rewrite.
Linkilo 2.6 — What's New
We’ve given Linkilo a massive makeover! This update introduces a 100% free way to get link suggestions, a beautifully redesigned settings page, and a faster, cleaner plugin.
🌟 The Big Highlights
-New Free Link Suggestions: You can now choose between using your paid AI credits or our new, completely free keyword matcher to find link suggestions.
-All-in-One Settings Page: We combined our old, confusing settings menus into one simple, modern dashboard.
-Smarter Google Insights: Linkilo is now much better at showing you how Google views your pages—without throwing false alarms for pages you intentionally hid.
-Faster & Lighter: We fixed broken charts, cleaned up a bug that was slowing down databases, and made the plugin much smaller so your site stays fast.
🚀 What’s New & Better
1. Choose AI or Free Suggestions
When you are editing a post, you will now see two clear options:
-AI Link Suggestions: Uses your paid OpenAI credits for smart, deep suggestions.
-Free Link Suggestions: Costs absolutely nothing. It scans your site for matching keywords entirely on its own.
2. A Clean, Modern Look
-No More Confusion: We took all of our scattered settings and organized them into six straightforward categories in one place.
-Easier to Use: We replaced the old, cluttered tables with clean layout cards, easy toggle switches, and clearer instructions.
3. Smarter Search Console Data
-Google Priority Tags: Easily see which pages Google likes best with simple, color-coded tags (High, Medium, or Low crawl rates).
-Fewer False Warnings: If you intentionally hide a page from Google using an SEO plugin (like Yoast or Rank Math), Linkilo will now recognize that. It won't scare you with "Critical Error" alerts for pages you wanted to hide anyway.
🛠️ Important Fixes
-Fixed Broken Charts: The graphs and charts on your dashboard that were refusing to load are now fully fixed and working.
-Fixed Broken Buttons: Fixed a code typo that was making some dashboard buttons, tabs, and dropdown menus unclickable.
-Stopped Database Bloat: Fixed a bug where older versions of the plugin were accidentally creating millions of lines of "junk data," which was clogging up user databases.
-Cut the Clutter: We deleted nearly 2MB of old, unused background files. This keeps the plugin lightweight and helps your WordPress dashboard load faster.
⚠️ Just Upgraded? Read This!
Clear Your Cache: Since we completely changed how the menus look, please clear your website cache (and your browser cache) right after updating so the new design displays properly.
If your database feels slow: The update immediately stops the "junk data" bug from creating new clutter. However, it won't delete the old junk. If your site was affected by this in the past, look inside the plugin's notes/ folder for a quick guide on how to clean it up.
We've been working on providing better decision making datas to incorporate into our reports. For example our Orphan page report will have critical decision making data such as how long the article has been published, or the word count, if its indexable, if it never crawled, GSC impressions and more. We hope many of our new report template design will help you decide and help you act on things quicker and smarter - coming soon v2.7
We've merged both the legacy and the new linkilo AI link suggestion in the post meta box into one. you can either click the AI version (need Open AI API) or the legacy link suggestion.
Need a crawl log report? whether you're working as an agency or a freelancer, or just need to know what the current status is, and compare it with the last report, you can. - coming soon v2.7
crawl waste is an issue, knowing what is causing is another and its time consuming. we just made it a lot easier and simplified it under our crawl log analyzer feature - coming soon v2.7
We've been working on GSC inspect API integration where it knows which pages are indexed or not and provide you the necessary information you and your site needs to get to 100%! - coming soon v2.7
after back and forth.. building this AI agent and that AI agent. i finally.. almost.. get keyword generation right...
Linkilo will generated the very core keywords, filter out everything else, get AI agents to detect if that keyword is associated with another article, assign the keyword to the best article and viola...
Close to one month of updating existing content. Google has never crawled 124 pages.. now down to 77 pages. With Linkilo, you can see exactly when Google or other AI chatbots crawl your pages. Write the best content, update for relevancy and make sure to submit for reindexing. Try Linkilo the ultimate link auditing tool for WordPress https://t.co/8XHhFSK2HP
We haven't gone away from being the best internal linking WordPress plugin but we are becoming the best link management and crawlability tool. The site had 149 pages that weren't crawled by Google. As we continue to do content refreshes, we can clearly see Google crawling and indexing those updated pages. Is Google/ChatGPT crawling every single page of your site?
Check if Google, ChatGPT and other bot crawlers are actually crawling your pages. if not... its time to delete, update, or write better content! Linkilo crawl log analyzer helps you see exactly which pages/posts has never been crawled, to help you figure out your next steps.