# Silotree

> Internal linking for WordPress sites: more readers from posts you already wrote. Silotree finds your unlinked posts (the ones no other post links to), suggests links from posts you already wrote (wrapping words already in the sentence), and you apply the ones you approve in WordPress. One-click apply from the app is optional and uses an Application Password for your own account. Every applied batch can be undone.

Silotree is a web app and a WordPress plugin. It suits any WordPress site with a few dozen posts or more: blogs, recipe and travel sites, review and affiliate sites, directories, software help centres and local businesses.

Key facts:

- Free internal link audit with no account and no email: every unlinked post, dead ends, broken internal links, links through redirects and click depth. It only counts links inside your writing, not menus, footers or sidebars. It never edits your site.
- The audit leads with the Silotree Score: the site's link structure from 0 to 100, in four parts (Linked 40, Working links 20, Reachable 20, Organised 20). It is arithmetic over the crawl's counts, with no AI judging it, and the formula is published at https://silotree.io/docs/silotree-score. It is Silotree's own model of linking habits: the weights are Silotree's choices, and Google has no such score. It is not an SEO score: it leaves out speed, titles, backlinks and link text. Sites with fewer than 5 posts get no score. Paid plans re-measure it every week.
- The internal linking habits check at https://silotree.io/tools/internal-linking-quiz is a separate self-assessment; its habits score comes from the answers, not a crawl, and is not the Silotree Score.
- New accounts get 14 days of Solo, Silotree Pro included, with no card. The days start when you connect the WordPress plugin, not at sign-up, and each site can have one trial. After that the site moves to Free, and every link written stays. Sign up with Google, or with an email and a password.
- On Free, your first 3 suggestions are included, and you apply them in WordPress or from the app with your own Application Password. Paid plans: Solo $12/month (1 site), Studio $35/month (5 sites), Agency $59/month (25 sites). Yearly: Solo $119/year, Studio $349/year, Agency $590/year, about two months free. 30-day money-back guarantee. No credits on any plan. Studio adds a client report for each site, as a PDF or a read-only link; Agency puts the agency's own name, logo and colour on those reports, with no Silotree branding.
- The WordPress plugin is free (downloaded from silotree.io; not yet on WordPress.org): the scan, unlinked-post and broken-link reports, CSV export, link suggestions in the editor added one at a time, and undo. Every paid plan also includes Silotree Pro, a separate add-on plugin downloaded from the app (not on WordPress.org), which adds keyword rules (applied by hand, or to new posts on publish if a rule is switched on) with Yoast and Rank Math focus-keyword import, bulk links to unlinked posts or to any chosen post (from the posts that already say its words, or that mention a phrase), links that follow a moved post, broken links fixed in batches, existing links removed or repointed in bulk with a trashed post's links taken out in one batch, and a URL changer that points every link to one address at another (wildcard folders, external and affiliate links), all inside wp-admin. The free plugin can also count clicks on internal links, cookieless and off by default, and mark external and new-tab links for screen readers. Each post can have target keywords, the words it is about, set in the editor or taken from Yoast, Rank Math or All in One SEO focus keywords, with Search Console queries added in one click once the site is connected; suggestions on them are marked. Category and tag pages with a written introduction can be linked to, and links can be written into their descriptions.
- Suggestions are matched by meaning, on up to 500 pages in the free audit and across every post on a paid plan, and ranked by the clicks each should earn, from the site's own Search Console data when connected.
- The app is laid out by job: This week (the few things worth doing now), Links (links to add, links to fix, links written), Topics (groups of posts and posts that compete), Structure (every post, the site map, sections, link wording and outbound links) and Results, with plan, plugin, emails and account details on the account menu.
- The weekly email lists the few new links to add. With the plugin connected, you can approve them from the email. You apply them in WordPress, or from the app if one-click apply is on.
- With Search Console connected, Silotree asks Google which posts it has indexed (URL Inspection), and links to posts Google has not added yet move up, under the filter Not in Google yet. Whether Google then adds a post is Google's decision.
- Links are written only after approval (or auto-approval of strong matches, if switched on). A WordPress revision is saved first, the post is read back to confirm the link landed, and any batch can be undone in one click. Links stay if you cancel.
- Broken and redirected links are fixed in one click, as one batch you can undo.
- Silotree has an MCP server at https://silotree.io/api/mcp, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients can use it after the account owner signs in (OAuth) and chooses read-only or read-and-write and which sites. An assistant can read the Score, links to add with their sentences, link problems and any post, and check a draft for links to and from existing posts. Writing is two steps: it previews a batch and can only write that exact batch, for ten minutes, after the person says yes; every batch is labelled with the assistant and can be undone. It works on every plan, with the same write limits as the app. The same answers are at a REST API (https://silotree.io/api/v1, with API keys) with signed webhooks. On WordPress 6.9 and later the free plugin also offers read-only abilities to the WordPress MCP Adapter, with no account.
- Link wording is tuned for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian and Indonesian; the audit works on a site in any language.
- Page builders: it writes into the text modules of Elementor, Divi 4 and 5, Beaver Builder, Bricks and Thrive Architect, and into ACF WYSIWYG fields, never into headings, buttons or other modules; each write is read back and can be undone.
- Limits: it writes into WordPress only, and it reads but does not write into posts built with Oxygen, WPBakery or Avada. It never writes new sentences to hold a link.

## Product

- [Home](https://silotree.io/): what Silotree does and how it works
- [Free internal link audit](https://silotree.io/free-link-checker): the Silotree Score and every finding behind it, no account
- [How the Silotree Score works](https://silotree.io/docs/silotree-score): the four parts, weights, formula and version history
- [Pricing](https://silotree.io/pricing): plans, limits and the money-back guarantee
- [Silotree in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor](https://silotree.io/mcp): the MCP server, what an assistant can do, and how to connect it
- [Changelog and roadmap](https://silotree.io/changelog): every release, with dates

## Research

- [The state of internal linking 2026](https://silotree.io/research/internal-linking-2026): Silotree's benchmark, 39 WordPress sites and 5,190 posts, scored with the Silotree Score; median score 52 (middle half 43–61.5); 56% of posts have no contextual link in from another post; whether better-linked posts get more search clicks: not yet: too little data to say. Aggregates only, with the method and its limits.
- [How the report was made](https://silotree.io/research/internal-linking-2026/method): sample, definitions, thresholds set in advance, and what it can't show
- [The report's figures as JSON](https://silotree.io/research/internal-linking-2026/data.json)

## Guides

- [Internal linking guides](https://silotree.io/guides): where to start
- [Internal linking strategy for blogs: a practical guide](https://silotree.io/guides/internal-linking-strategy): What internal links actually do, which ones matter, anchor text, click depth and main guides, and a routine small enough to keep.
- [How to find orphan pages in WordPress (and fix them)](https://silotree.io/guides/find-orphan-pages-wordpress): Four ways to list your unlinked posts, from a free script to a full crawl, and a decision table for what to do with each.
- [How many internal links per page? An honest answer](https://silotree.io/guides/internal-links-per-page): No magic number, but realistic ranges by post length, why inbound links matter more than outbound, and a rule of thumb you can use.
- [Anchor text for internal links: how to choose the words](https://silotree.io/guides/anchor-text-internal-links): What Google says about link text, the six kinds of anchor, before-and-after rewrites, accessibility and a 30-minute audit.
- [Exact match anchor text: how much is too much?](https://silotree.io/guides/exact-match-anchor-text): Why exact match anchors are risky on backlinks but not on internal links, the real cost of one phrase everywhere, and a worked audit.
- [Keyword cannibalization in WordPress: find and fix it](https://silotree.io/guides/keyword-cannibalization-wordpress): What it is and isn’t, the WordPress habits that cause it, a step-by-step Search Console method, and a decision table by intent.
- [Merge or redirect cannibalized posts: a WordPress how-to](https://silotree.io/guides/merge-redirect-retarget-competing-posts): A decision tree, then step-by-step merges, 301s, canonicals and noindex in WordPress, plus fixing links and measuring the result.
- [Silo vs topic cluster: which site structure to use](https://silotree.io/guides/silos-vs-topic-clusters): Strict silos and topic clusters compared honestly, what Google says about structure, and a hybrid you can build on an existing archive.
- [Click depth: what it is, how to measure and reduce it](https://silotree.io/guides/click-depth): What click depth is, what Google has said, why pagination buries old posts, and the fixes in order of leverage.
- [Contextual links vs navigational links: what each does](https://silotree.io/guides/contextual-vs-navigational-links): Menus make pages reachable; links in sentences say what matters. How to measure the gap on your site and close it.
- [Best internal linking plugins for WordPress (2026)](https://silotree.io/guides/best-internal-linking-plugins-wordpress): Link Whisper, Internal Link Juicer, LinkBoss, Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO, LinkStorm, Linkbot and more, what each does, what it costs, and who it suits.
- [Internal link audit checklist: 20 checks, in order](https://silotree.io/guides/internal-link-audit-checklist): Twenty checks in working order (broken links, redirects, unlinked posts, depth, anchors, competing posts) with a free method and a definition of done for each.
- [How to raise your Silotree Score: what to fix, in order](https://silotree.io/guides/raise-your-silotree-score): What moves each of the four parts, the fixes in the order that adds the most points, a worked 80-post example and what the score leaves out.

## Help centre

- [Silotree help centre](https://silotree.io/docs): step-by-step help with setup, the plugin, billing and problems
- [Run your first scan](https://silotree.io/docs/run-your-first-scan): Type your address into the free link checker and read the audit. No account needed.
- [How the Silotree Score works](https://silotree.io/docs/silotree-score): The four parts of the score, their weights, the arithmetic, when a score is withheld, and the badge for your site.
- [Sign up and claim the scan you just ran](https://silotree.io/docs/sign-up-and-claim-your-scan): Create a free account from your audit; a scan from the last 24 hours opens straight away.
- [Approve your first links](https://silotree.io/docs/approve-your-first-links): Approve or skip the first links in onboarding, then continue to WordPress, the last step.
- [Connect WordPress: install and pair the plugin](https://silotree.io/docs/connect-wordpress): Download silotree.zip, upload and activate it, then press Connect to Silotree.
- [See your first links live](https://silotree.io/docs/see-your-first-links-live): Your approved links wait in WordPress as the plugin connects; apply them there, then open a post or undo the batch.
- [Connect Search Console](https://silotree.io/docs/connect-search-console): Connect read-only Search Console access from This week or Site settings → Connections.
- [Install the plugin, or update it to the latest version](https://silotree.io/docs/install-and-update-the-plugin): Download silotree.zip, upload it under Plugins, activate, and how to update to 0.8.5.
- [Install Silotree Pro, the add-on in every paid plan](https://silotree.io/docs/install-silotree-pro): What Pro adds, where to download it, how to install it, and what happens if your plan ends.
- [Pair the plugin with your Silotree account, or pair it again](https://silotree.io/docs/pair-the-plugin): Connect to Silotree from Silotree → Settings, check the connection, or connect again.
- [Add links while you write, with the block editor sidebar](https://silotree.io/docs/editor-sidebar): Insert suggested links from the Silotree sidebar, and link older posts in after publishing.
- [Add links in the Classic Editor](https://silotree.io/docs/classic-editor-box): Insert suggested links from the Silotree box in the Classic Editor’s side column.
- [Link chosen words everywhere with keyword rules](https://silotree.io/docs/keyword-rules): Add a rule, limit where it links, preview each sentence, apply it as one undoable batch, or import rules from a CSV, Yoast or Rank Math.
- [Link many posts at once, and keep links working when a post moves](https://silotree.io/docs/bulk-links-and-moved-posts): Bulk linking for unlinked posts and any post you choose, in the background on large sites, broken links fixed in batches, and links that follow a moved post.
- [Change every link to one address into another](https://silotree.io/docs/url-changer): Write a rule, preview every sentence, apply as one undoable batch, and see every post it touched in the log.
- [Remove or change many links at once, and tidy up after a deleted post](https://silotree.io/docs/manage-links-in-bulk): Remove or repoint many links in one batch, unlink trashed posts, snooze broken links and check YouTube videos.
- [Keep posts and words out of every link with the never-link list](https://silotree.io/docs/never-link-list): Exclude posts, post types, categories and words from the plugin's suggestions and from every write.
- [See every link in and out of a post](https://silotree.io/docs/per-post-links-report): The Links in column, the Links action under each post, and what the report lists.
- [Read the plugin’s Reports screen](https://silotree.io/docs/plugin-reports): What each figure and card on Silotree → Reports counts, with and without a connected account.
- [Link click counts and link icons](https://silotree.io/docs/link-clicks-and-icons): Turn on click counts and link icons, read the counts, and what is and is not collected.
- [Add a related posts block to your posts](https://silotree.io/docs/related-posts-block): How the related posts are picked, how to place the block, and how often the list is refreshed.
- [What the plugin will and won’t edit](https://silotree.io/docs/what-the-plugin-edits): Paragraphs, lists, quotes, tables and the text modules of Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks and Thrive yes; headings, buttons, recipe cards, shortcodes and Oxygen no.
- [Uninstall the plugin, and decide what happens to its links](https://silotree.io/docs/uninstall-the-plugin): Choose keep, strip or remove under “When this plugin is deleted”, then deactivate and delete.
- [Find your way around Silotree](https://silotree.io/docs/find-your-way-around): What each part of the app is for, and where to find your plan, plugin and emails.
- [Approve, skip, undo and edit the links to add](https://silotree.io/docs/links-to-add): Approve, skip, undo, change the link text, bulk actions and every keyboard shortcut.
- [Write your approved links, and undo a batch](https://silotree.io/docs/write-and-undo-batches): Review and write approved links as a batch, then undo it from Silotree or WordPress.
- [Link a new post in its first week](https://silotree.io/docs/link-new-posts): The Link your new post card on This week, the publish setting, and the New posts filter.
- [Approve strong matches automatically after each scan](https://silotree.io/docs/auto-approve-strong-matches): What it approves, where to check it, how to turn it off, and how it differs from weekly writing.
- [Fix broken and redirected links](https://silotree.io/docs/fix-broken-links): Read the groups in Links → To fix, then Fix all: dead links unlinked, redirects re-pointed.
- [Fix posts competing for the same search](https://silotree.io/docs/competing-posts): Find posts splitting the same searches, see which should win, and point links at it.
- [Read your topics, and rename, merge or split them](https://silotree.io/docs/topics): What each topic needs, and how to rename, merge or split one, and what an edit changes.
- [Find the pages to write next, and get a brief](https://silotree.io/docs/write-next): The three kinds of missing page, the brief, and reserving the links while you write.
- [Tell Silotree what each post is about](https://silotree.io/docs/target-keywords): Add a post’s keywords in WordPress or Silotree, from your SEO plugin or Search Console, and optionally link only on them.
- [Star your most important posts, and see what a link changes](https://silotree.io/docs/starred-pages-and-what-if): Star money pages so links to them rank first; read the what-if under More.
- [Read your site map and sections](https://silotree.io/docs/site-map-and-sections): Site map filters and groupings, Rebuild sections, the Posts tab and what the Sections tab measures.
- [Check your link wording and links to other sites](https://silotree.io/docs/link-wording-and-outbound-links): Same words on different pages, the five kinds of link wording, links to other sites and the rel menu.
- [Read your Results and the impact number](https://silotree.io/docs/results-and-impact): Your score over time, traffic, progress without Search Console, posts slipping, and the impact number.
- [Approve links from the weekly email](https://silotree.io/docs/weekly-email): Approve or skip from your inbox, write from there or from Silotree, the monthly results email, and how often it comes.
- [Write strong matches every week](https://silotree.io/docs/weekly-writing): What it writes, the limits it keeps to, the email it sends, and how to undo or turn it off.
- [Give a topic with no main guide its main guide](https://silotree.io/docs/create-a-main-guide): The outline Silotree saves, what you write, and what happens after you publish.
- [Link to and from your category and tag pages](https://silotree.io/docs/category-and-tag-pages): Which category and tag pages get links, the words a link to one uses, and writing links into a description.
- [Link the posts Google has not added to search yet](https://silotree.io/docs/not-in-google-yet): How Silotree checks which posts Google has not indexed, and where to find the links to them.
- [Link a site written in more than one language](https://silotree.io/docs/multilingual-sites): Links stay within a language; how languages are detected, and where to check them.
- [Send a client report](https://silotree.io/docs/client-report): Pick a period, download the PDF or share an expiring link, and add your own branding on Agency.
- [Plans and limits](https://silotree.io/docs/plans-and-limits): Sites, pages per scan and links written on Free, Solo, Studio and Agency.
- [Use the free trial, and know what happens when it ends](https://silotree.io/docs/free-trial): What the trial unlocks, where to see the days left, and what changes when it ends.
- [Upgrade or change your plan](https://silotree.io/docs/upgrade-or-change-plan): Pick a plan and interval on the Plans page, pay through Creem, change plan later with proration.
- [Cancel your plan](https://silotree.io/docs/cancel-your-plan): Cancel in Plan and billing; the plan runs to the end of the period, and your links stay.
- [Get a refund](https://silotree.io/docs/refunds): Ask within 30 days of your first payment; the refund goes back to your card via Creem.
- [Delete your account](https://silotree.io/docs/delete-your-account): Account menu → Sign-in and account → Delete account, confirmed with your password or email address.
- [Fix a crawl that was blocked or stopped short](https://silotree.io/docs/crawl-blocked-or-incomplete): robots.txt, firewalls, slow servers and page limits: why a scan stops, and the fix.
- [Fix Search Console when it won’t connect](https://silotree.io/docs/search-console-wont-connect): Expired attempts, missing refresh tokens, the wrong property, and data that hasn’t arrived.
- [Find out why a link didn’t land or a post was skipped](https://silotree.io/docs/link-didnt-land): Every reason a link is refused, and what to do about each one.
- [Fix the plugin when it can’t reach Silotree](https://silotree.io/docs/plugin-cant-reach-silotree): Check connection, then fix outgoing requests, a blocked REST API, an old key or a moved site.
- [Use Silotree from your assistant](https://silotree.io/docs/use-silotree-in-assistants): Connect an assistant, ask about your links, check a draft, and write what you confirm.
- [Use the Silotree API and webhooks](https://silotree.io/docs/silotree-api): API keys, the endpoints, writing through a preview, and signed webhooks.

## Comparisons

Each comparison says where the other tool is stronger and who should buy it instead.

- [All comparisons](https://silotree.io/compare)
- [Silotree vs Link Whisper](https://silotree.io/vs/link-whisper): The closest comparison there is. Both suggest internal links and write them into your posts; the differences are price, how many page builders each writes into, and whether the tool holds an opinion about the shape of your site.
- [Silotree vs LinkBoss](https://silotree.io/vs/linkboss): The one comparison that turns on a single decision: whether a tool is allowed to add sentences to your published writing, and whether you want to pay per link.
- [Silotree vs Internal Link Juicer](https://silotree.io/vs/internal-link-juicer): Automatic keyword linking against reviewed structural linking, two different answers to what an internal link is for, and to where it should live.
- [Silotree vs Rank Math](https://silotree.io/vs/rank-math): Rank Math added AI Link Genius to PRO in March 2026, and it made Rank Math a real internal linking tool rather than a checkbox. The question is whether you want linking inside your SEO suite, or a tool that does nothing else.
- [Silotree vs Yoast SEO](https://silotree.io/vs/yoast): Yoast helps with the post in front of you. The problem on a two-thousand-post blog is the nineteen hundred behind it.
- [Silotree vs Screaming Frog](https://silotree.io/vs/screaming-frog): Not really competitors. One is the best crawler there is; the other is a tool for doing something about what a crawl found.
- [Silotree vs LinkStorm](https://silotree.io/vs/linkstorm): A SaaS that works on any website against a tool built only for WordPress. The deciding question is where the links live once they are made, and what happens to them when you stop paying.
- [Silotree vs Linkbot](https://silotree.io/vs/linkbot): Two products with similar price lists and opposite answers to one question: should an internal link live in your post, or in a script?
- [Silotree vs Linkilo](https://silotree.io/vs/linkilo): A Swiss army knife against a single blade. Linkilo bundles linking with redirects, 404s and crawler logs at a low price; Silotree does internal links and asks you to keep other tools for the rest.
- [Silotree vs InLinks](https://silotree.io/vs/inlinks): InLinks is a content-optimisation platform with internal linking as one part; Silotree is an internal linking tool with nothing else attached.
- [Silotree vs AIOSEO](https://silotree.io/vs/aioseo): All in One SEO is a full SEO suite, and Link Assistant is its internal linking add-on. A good one for a suite, and worth knowing exactly where it stops.
- [Link Whisper alternatives](https://silotree.io/alternatives/link-whisper): 8 options, with the trade-off of each
- [LinkBoss alternatives](https://silotree.io/alternatives/linkboss): 8 options, with the trade-off of each

## Use cases

- [For food bloggers](https://silotree.io/for/food-bloggers): Stop your recipes competing with each other.
- [For travel bloggers](https://silotree.io/for/travel-bloggers): Your destinations have a clear shape. Your guides cut across it.
- [For directory and location sites](https://silotree.io/for/directory-sites): Two hundred pages titled “best X in Y”, and no page about X.
- [For review and affiliate sites](https://silotree.io/for/review-sites): Your round-ups do the linking, but no other post links to them.
- [For WooCommerce stores](https://silotree.io/for/woocommerce-stores): Your guides get found. Your products get the grid.
- [For local service businesses](https://silotree.io/for/local-businesses): Your cost posts get found. Your service pages get the enquiries.
- [For software and SaaS help centres](https://silotree.io/for/software-help-centres): Nine articles explain exporting. None of them links to the others.

## Optional

- [About the Silotree crawler](https://silotree.io/bot): the SiloTree/1.0 user agent, and how to limit or block it
- [Contact](https://silotree.io/contact): general questions, billing and refunds, plugin help, partnerships and security reports
- [Privacy](https://silotree.io/privacy)
- [Terms](https://silotree.io/terms)
- [Refunds](https://silotree.io/refunds)