Linksy is the best Link Whisper alternative with the true power of AI for internal link building. Take our word for it.
With Linksy, we pledged to always give the best experience to the world of internal linking. It’s a promise we’ve never reneged on.
Link Whisper was arguably the first plugin to enter the market and became popular among WordPress content creators. Using Link Whisper back then was the miracle and height of ease that an average WordPress content creator needed. As a lot of content creators are still lost in the lost glory like the Windows XP users, we apologize that we didn’t introduce Linksy earlier. Linksy, as the best alternative to Link Whisper, undoubtedly matched Link Whisper’s prowess and surpassed it; you are about to understand why we call that the crown should be given to Linksy amongst a few players in the market.
Link Whisper vs Linksy:
Quick Comparison
Link Whisper is a great tool for internal linking – no doubt about it. But Linksy is the alternative to choose, once you know what you are missing.
The 8 Wonders
Link Whisper
Linksy
Starting Price
Annual price for 1 Site License
$97
$59
Keyword Extraction Algorithm
Extract keyphrases from posts with the algorithm that understands your language.
Natural Language Processing
Analyze posts in full with the power of Natural Language Processing.
Semantic SEO Keywords
Suggest keywords that are semantically related to potential target posts.
Paragraph Rewriter with AI
Feature to rewrite paragraphs with AI to include your posts’ target keywords.
Silo Network With Topic Clusters
Feature to build Silo Networks with topic clusters and effortlessly link them.
Bulk Keyword Generator
Generate keywords in bulk for your posts, with over fifteen modes to choose from.
Full Automation
Set your link strategy on autopilot and let Linksy add links once posts are published.
How Does Link Whisper Work?
When you install Link Whisper, it crawls your site for links and doesn’t do more (unlike Linksy).
To add a link to a post, it matches post titles with key phrases, and does it wrongly most of the time because of the sole reliance on stemmer (more on this later).
Apart from the basics of adding links, Link Whisper has other noteworthy features and functions, admittedly.
These include a links report that displays statistics for all links, identifies broken ones, and features like auto-linking, a URL modification tool, and integration with Google Search Console, all of which have contributed to Link Whisper’s reputation.
Nevertheless, one may have a few things to complain about the plugin, as we look at some of the challenges of using Link Whisper.
The Challenges of Using Link Whisper
When you run Link Whisper for the first time, you might mistake the link scan link speed for the general speed of the app, but that changes when you begin to use the app.
Some things about this pioneer plugin have not worked well for their image, and the most common complaint seems to be the presence of countless irrelevant links in their suggestions. You can blame it on their decision to stick to Stemmer.
Link Whisper relies on a stemmer, which can be beneficial but only if the user desires it, such as when they need to find an exact match of a keyword or a stemmed version. Otherwise, basing a system of internal linking on it can be counterproductive.
You won’t notice much about the lack of speed that’s off-putting when you use Link Whisper on a site with less than a hundred posts. But as your site grows, link suggestions can take up to a minute to pop up, exposing further the limitations of its sole reliance on stemmer.
How Does Link Whisper Use Stemmers?
Suppose I want to send links to the post “AI in Education: Redefining Learning and Personalization”.
- With a stemmer in place, each word in the title is reduced to its root or base form to make a list of possible stemmed versions.
Education: educate, educated, education.
Personalization: personal, person, personalize, personalized.
Note: The stemmed version of a word depends on the algorithm of the stemmer being used.
- The system forms a pair of the major words in the title with the stemmed versions:
AI + Education, AI + Educate, AI + Educated,
AI + Person, AI + Personal, AI + Personalize, AI + Personalized, AI + Personalization,
Education + Person, Education + Personal, Education + Personalized, Education + Personalization,
Educate + Personalization, Educated + Personalization, Educate + Personalize,
Learn + Personalization, Learned + Personalization, Learning + Personalization, etc.
- The system searches for portions of texts that start with the first word and end with the second word in the series, and vice versa.
Unsurprisingly, you now will have results like these:
Education + Personalization: “person as well as an amazing educator”, “person when it comes to your education”, “educated person”, persons I know that takes education,
Learning + Personalization: “person to learn”, “learning the act of massaging and I’ll be your personal”, “learning to see an imperfect person”, “learning how to understand and live effectively with another person”, etc.
As you can see, these keyphrases have little to no contextual relationship with the post they are being suggested for.
The not-so-good suggestions from Link Whisper, as seen in the video below
Link Whisper vs Linksy:
The Winning Edge
When compared side-by-side, it’s easy to further see why Linksy is better than Link Whisper.
Key Features
Link Whisper
Linksy
Keyword Suggestions
Ability to suggest keywords that make sense.
Average
Great
UI/UX
Overall user interface and user experience.
Average
Great
Page Builder Integration
Page builders support, with attention to detail.
Average
Great
Speed and Performance
General speed and performance of the system.
Average
Great
Filter Options
Ability to add filter and customization options.
Average
Great
Broken Links Reporting
Feature to check for and display broken links
Great
Great
URL Search and Replace
The feature to search and replace or unlink URLs.
Average
Great
Title Search and Replace
Feature to search and replace or modify post titles.
None
Yes
Anchor Search and Replace
Feature to search and replace, modify, or fix anchors.
None
Yes
Ajax Search
Search for and get data almost instantly.
None
Yes
GSC Integration
Google Search Console integration.
Yes
Planned
Link Click Reporting
Feature to track and report link clicks.
Yes
None
Let’s Talk About Linksy
Linksy brings the true power of AI to internal linking, making it the ultimate game-changer. It’s that one plugin that helps you create the internal links that search engines love and approve.
Starting from the incorporation of Natural Language Processing in its core, with the keyword extraction algorithm that understands your language, there’s no limit to the peace of mind it offers.
Linksy combines speed, accuracy, semantic analysis, and a user-friendly and appealing design to give every user the ultimate internal linking experience. This not only saves you time but also ensures your site benefits from a coherent, SEO-friendly internal linking strategy.
You can focus on other aspects of SEO and leave the link building for Linksy.
How Does Linksy Work Differently?
When you install Linksy, you are prompted to choose your site language and the post types you want Linksy to work with. The language selection helps to use the right keyword algorithm for your site.
From here, the posts are crawled for links.
After the crawling, encoding follows, which is the main task.
The encoding is done by extracting keywords from all posts, analyzing all posts to rank them against their titles, and further ranking every keyword against all the posts on the site.
These keywords are then stored, which confirms that the bulk of the work is done once you run the onboarding and we prepare for your next posts before you write them, with the keywords extracted.
When it’s time to add links to a post, the system fetches the stored keywords and matches them semantically with their target post titles.
This process takes four to ten seconds for most sites.
What Makes Linksy Special?
Linksy has matched the prowess of Link Whisper and surpassed it, and you are about to understand why it deserves the crown over the other players in the market. Choosing Linksy isn’t a gamble. It’s a wise decision that ends in smiles.
Here are some reasons to choose Linksy.
- Linksy’s AI Offerings for Internal Linking
Linksy uses an intelligent algorithm to analyze your content and rank them accordingly, before matching them with semantically related posts and key phrases. The linksy system sits on two brilliant AI principles: Keyword Extraction Algorithm and Natural Language Processing.
- Keyword Extraction Algorithm
To make Linksy work well with a language especially the non English languages, the Language team has to learn the lexis and grammatical structure and with that a keyword algorithm is created for the language.
- Natural Language Processing
The Natural Language processing helps with establishing a contextual relationship between keywords created with the keyword extraction algorithm and the posts. Each post is ranked against their titles and any focus keywords the user provides, which means the system reads through all the posts on the site to establish the relationship.
- SEO-inclined rating system on all pages
When you add links, you want to make sure the suggested anchors/keywords are semantically related to the title they are being suggested for. This system is seen and used on every page of Linksy, just so you can add links with confidence.
- Great support for page builders
We are meticulous about how we support every page builder, including Gutenberg-based builders. We do it better. We don’t add links to unworthy blocks and containers.
- Smarter Suggestions
By analyzing your posts and using the keyword extraction algorithm that is far better than stemmers, Linksy provides suggested keywords relevant to the potential target posts.
Suggestions: Link Whisper vs Linksy
This image shows the first three suggestions for a post using Linksy Versus Link Whisper. Link Whisper’s suggestions are off, unlike Linksy’s.
- Simple, beautiful UI
Linksy’s user interface is both visually appealing and easy to use. The meticulous attention to detail during the development of this plugin makes it nearly limitless in its application.
- Built for Speed
- Your Site Can Grow with Linksy
We’ve successfully used Linksy on websites with more than 20,000 published posts, which shows it can support your site’s growth. However, with Link Whisper, as the number of your posts increases, the pages start to slow down. Once your site has over a thousand posts, adding even one link could become a lengthy process.
Below is a video we made comparing the time it takes to load the ‘Add inbounds Links’ page for a post using both Linksy and Link Whisper. The site had 3,500 published posts for the testing. In the video, Linksy loaded the page in just 4 seconds, whereas Link Whisper took 30 seconds to do the same.
- Add Outbound Links Feature
We understand the post edit screen can be a distraction for many obvious reasons, so we created a separate page to help add outbound links quickly and easily. Once you are done with a post, you can easily search for the next post to add links to, or simply click the next button to load the next orphaned post.
- Search and Replace Feature
Do you have badly done anchors, links and titles? With the search and replace feature, you can search for URLs, anchors, post titles, and replace them easily. The feature is function-packed that you would want to make some link errors for fun.
- The Playground Feature
The playground provides a page where you can evaluate keywords to know if they match the post intents.
- The Pilot Addon
The playground provides a page where you can evaluate keywords to know if they match the post intents.
- Link Automation
Configure your link and let it run on autopilot while you divert your time on other aspects of your content strategy.
- Silo Network
Build custom Silo networks with topic clusters, map the links, and use Linksy to link them as you desire.
- Paragraph Rewriter with AI
Linksy helps search for paragraphs that best fit your keyword, and further help to rewrite the paragraph with the inclusion of the keyword. Insert it with a click of a button.
- Keyword Generation with AI
Generate semantic focus keywords and anchors for your posts with AI and set them to be linked to them.
What Users Say
Testimonials from people who have used Linksy and found it to be a helpful tool.
Conclusion: Why Should You Choose Linksy over Link Whisper?
Link Whisper’s popularity is an advantage for them; however, when comparing features directly, Linksy is far ahead and shows no sign of slowing down.
Linksy is staying innovative to remain ahead of the growing competition, offering unique features and on a mission to win every content creator who loves perfection.
Focus on other aspects of SEO – leave link creation for Linksy.