Albion Link Assistant is a free, self-hosted internal linking tool. It uses your own OpenAI API key to semantically index your content and suggest the most relevant internal links while you write.

Documentation and setup guide: albionsite.com/plugins/albion-link-assistant

Features

🔗 AI-powered link suggestions in Gutenberg and Classic Editor
🧱 Full Elementor and Beaver Builder support — indexing, reports and link insertion
🎯 Reuses focus keywords from Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO and SEOPress
⚡ Scales to large sites — vectors stored packed and scored in chunks, so memory stays flat
✍️ Anchor text taken from your own wording, and only ever a phrase that is really in the post
📊 Site health score (0–100%)
⚠️ Orphaned posts report
🔗 Broken links scanner (internal + external)
⚡ Auto-linking rules (keyword URL)
🔄 URL Changer — update all internal links at once
💰 Money Pages — mark and prioritize key pages
📈 Click tracking + Link Report
🌐 Domain Report (external links)
📋 Auto-link activity log
🔗 Related Posts widget
🚫 Exclude posts, categories, tags
Polylang support (multilingual)
⬇️ Export CSV

Privacy

Post content is sent to OpenAI to generate embeddings. No content is stored externally — embeddings are saved in your own WordPress database.

External services

This plugin connects to the OpenAI API to turn your posts into embeddings, which is how it works out which pages are related.

It is called when you index or re-index your content, and when suggestions are requested for the post you are editing. The post title and text content are sent for that purpose. No personal data about your visitors is sent, and nothing is sent anywhere else — the plugin talks only to OpenAI, using an API key you supply yourself.

Service: OpenAI API — api.openai.com
Terms of use: openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
Privacy policy: openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

Source code

This plugin ships as plain, human-readable source. There is no build step, no bundler and no minified first-party code — every JavaScript file under assets/js/ is the file that actually runs and can be edited directly.

The Gutenberg sidebar is written against the wp.* browser globals using wp.element.createElement, so it requires no compilation.

Third-party libraries:

d3 v7.8.5 — github.com/d3/d3 — BSD-3-Clause. Bundled under assets/vendor/d3/, which contains both the minified build (d3.min.js, used by the plugin) and the full unminified source (d3.js), along with the upstream LICENSE file. Both are shipped exactly as published on npm and are not modified.

Development happens at: github.com/albion-web-studio/albion-link-assistant

Who makes this

Built and maintained by Albion Web Studio, a web development studio working on WordPress, WooCommerce, OpenCart and custom CRM projects. This plugin came out of internal work on client sites and is released free under the GPL.