Internal links

How Blogged proposes links between your own pages, why every destination is verified before it is offered, and how to insert one.

Internal links are the cheapest ranking work a blog can do, and the easiest to get wrong by inventing a link to a page that does not exist.

How opportunities are found#

Blogged holds an inventory of destinations it has already verified exist. Link opportunities are proposed only against that inventory, so a proposed destination is always a real page.

Four kinds of destination are in it:

The last two are why a draft can link out to your pricing or feature pages rather than only to other articles. They come from your own Knowledge Engine, so a destination is offered only while the entity behind it is active.

Each opportunity carries the destination, the anchor text, and the section of the current article it belongs in, so inserting one puts the link where the sentence supports it rather than at the end.

Inserting#

Accept an opportunity and the link is inserted into the matching section. Undo puts it back. In the editor, nothing is inserted without you: every link that appears there is one you accepted.

That is a statement about the editor and only about the editor. The automation settings below can add links with nobody present, including to articles you have already published.

During generation#

A drafting run proposes and inserts links using the same inventory. A brand new blog has little to link to, which is normal: the inventory grows with the archive, and older posts become link destinations for newer ones.

Settings#

Internal linking has its own settings under Project settings, Internal links. Saving them requires the owner or admin role. An editor can open the page and read the current values but cannot change them.

newDraftModeautomatic | review | off

How links are added to new drafts. automatic wraps exact natural phrases once the article is written, review creates the same verified opportunities without touching the article, and off creates none.

existingPublishedModeautomatic | review | off

How links are added to posts that are already published, using the same three values. The default is automatic, which runs a bounded maintenance pass over your archive after each publication and applies up to 10 safe opportunities to it. If that pass fails, it is logged and the publication still succeeds: link maintenance never holds a post back.

includePublishedPostsboolean

Whether the post row of the destination table above is eligible.

includeCategoriesboolean

Whether the category row is eligible.

includeProductPagesboolean

Whether the product_page and landing_page rows are eligible. One toggle covers both, which is why three toggles govern four kinds of destination.

excludePostIdspost ids

Individual posts you never want linked to, whatever the toggles say.

Turning a toggle off removes that kind of destination from the inventory entirely, so the four-row table above describes the largest set of destinations available to you rather than a fixed one.

Density is not a number you set. Blogged follows a balanced policy: a soft target band per thousand words, each destination used once, and an article left short of target rather than carrying a link that does not belong in it.