Link Manager vs Linkagent

Link Manager is a WordPress plugin for publishers who need to monitor and organize links. Its dashboard shows per-post internal links, inbound links, optimization status, click counts, and automatic links. In the editor, it suggests posts to connect using title overlap, shared categories, tags, and post type. The Pro broken-link checker scans URLs in published content and records HTTP responses such as 404 errors, redirects, and server failures. Click tracking stores the source post, destination URL, anchor text, and click date and time. Automatic-link rules can target post types, categories, and tags, with limits for each rule. Tables can be exported as CSV, and configuration can be exported as XML. A free version with part of the functionality is available on WordPress.org; paid plans start at $59 a year. It runs on self-hosted WordPress, requiring WordPress 5.9 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.

Linkagent crawls websites to identify missing internal links and add links after users approve them. Links can be delivered through a script, WordPress plugin, or JSON API. Its analysis reads a sitemap and maps topics, clusters, orphan pages, click depth, and the in-text link graph. Suggested anchor phrases come from existing page copy, and optional AI review checks them against their original sentence. Crawling, clustering, scoring, and anchor selection work without an AI key; a Claude API key enables additional review. Users approve or reject suggestions, and those decisions persist across re-crawls. Suggestions are balanced at roughly one new link per 250 words, with limits on new inbound links and repeated anchor use. The asynchronous embed script is about 2 KB and wraps existing text without adding or moving page content. Linkagent supports WordPress, Next.js, Shopify, Webflow, and other CMSs. Self-hosting keeps content, link graphs, and review decisions in the user's own Postgres database. Self-hosting costs nothing and requires your infrastructure; hosted plans start at $29 a month.