Link&Cluster vs redCacti

Link&Cluster is a self-hosted WordPress plugin for finding internal-link opportunities and organizing topical clusters. It highlights paragraphs where links to existing content may fit, and reports internal-link counts across posts with sorting and filtering. Clusters can use categories or custom taxonomies, with links inside those groups prioritized. The plugin can insert a related-posts box into other posts, and its design and wording can be customized. Starter is free at free and includes incoming internal-link counts, outgoing external-link counts and counts by category. Pro costs $44, paid once, billed as Buy once, with lifetime updates; it adds link opportunities, taxonomy counts, cluster assistance, one-click internal links and related-post boxes. Links embedded in Editor Mode are said to remain after uninstalling. Purchases include a 14-day money-back guarantee. Installation involves uploading the plugin to WordPress’s wp-content/plugins directory and activating it. Paid support is listed through the WordPress.org forum. The WordPress.org listing says the plugin has not been tested with the latest three major WordPress releases.

redCacti is a web service for website health monitoring and SEO analysis. Its crawler finds broken internal and external links, orphan pages, and internal-linking gaps; it can also identify redirect chains and loops. Scheduled crawls can run daily, weekly, or monthly and follow robots.txt directives. Audits cover metadata, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, Schema.org structured data, image alt text, and SSL certificates. For internal linking, the service suggests source and target pages, anchor text, similarity scores, impact labels, and context. Users can paste draft content for proposed link placements, but a team must review and add those links in its CMS. redCacti tracks health scores and crawl snapshots, and scheduled crawls can notify users of new issues. It says it works with any CMS, naming WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, custom stacks, and headless websites. The free plan is free for one website and up to 1,000 pages, with up to 30 results visible. Pro costs $19 a month billed monthly; Agency costs $39 a month billed monthly.