Getting started

What LinkTaste does

LinkTaste reads your website the way a search engine does: it starts at your homepage and sitemap, follows every internal link, and records where each link sits on the page. From that it builds the link graph of your site, the pages and the links between them, and answers the questions internal linking is about:

• Which pages collect the most link value, and which get almost none.
• Which pages nothing links to, or only the menu does.
• How many clicks a visitor needs to reach each page.
• Which links are broken, redirect, or point at a page that should not be linked.
• What the link texts say about the pages they point to.
• Which links to add, on which page, in which passage, with which anchor text.

The links you approve can go live on your site through one script tag, the link snippet, without editing a page.

Every figure is counted from your site's own pages and links. The same crawl always gives the same numbers, and every number can be traced back to the pages behind it. The one place an AI model takes part is the link suggestions: it judges which links are worth adding and where (see Suggestions).

Four steps

1. Create a project for a website: enter its address and choose what to crawl, the whole site or one language version or directory. See Create a project.
2. Start a crawl. LinkTaste fetches every page in scope, separates navigation from content links, ranks the pages and reads their text. See Run a crawl.
3. Open the results. The overview says where to start; the views behind it list the pages and links to work on. See Reading the results.
4. Approve the links you want. With the link snippet on your site, each approved link goes live in its sentence, and every new crawl checks it again. See Your links & the snippet.

Projects and crawls

A project is one site (or one section of a site) that you want to analyse. A crawl is one complete read of that project at a point in time. Each crawl is kept as its own snapshot, so after you change your internal links you can crawl again and open the new results next to the old ones, by hand or on a weekly or monthly schedule.

How many projects you can keep and how many pages one crawl covers depend on your plan. See Plans & limits.

Where to start reading

If you only have a few minutes, open a finished crawl and work top to bottom through the Issues view: broken links and redirects are the quickest wins. Then look at Under-linked for the pages that need links most, and at Suggestions for where to add them.