Internal Links

Links in and out of every post, as Rank Math's Link Counter counts them; orphans.

kitloom/internal-links · admins: kitloom/internal-links-filament, kitloom/internal-links-nova

Rank Math's Link Counter on its own tables: every post's links, internal and external, and how many links of other posts lead to it. A site moved from WordPress keeps its counts, and Rank Math reads what this package writes.

The admin is kitloom/internal-links-filament or kitloom/internal-links-nova.

Where things are kept

Table	A row
rank_math_internal_links	one link: url as written, post_id it is in, target_post_id it leads to (0 — none), type internal or external
rank_math_internal_meta	one post: internal_link_count, external_link_count, incoming_link_count

How links are counted

As the plugin counted them on a WordPress site:

• every <a href>, repeats too; #anchors and links to files (images, documents, archives) are left out;
• internal: relative addresses, the site's own host by http, https or //, with or without www., and tel:; external: other hosts, mailto:, javascript:;
• a link leads to a post when its address opens a published post of a counted type; categories, drafts and missing pages lead nowhere;
• drafts are counted as well; trashed and deleted posts are not.

Where the plugin leaves rows stale, this package does not: links to a post that is gone or no longer published lead nowhere again, and links written before their target existed find it once it is published.

Counted types: every public post type the site declares but attachments, or the ones in kitloom-internal-links.post_types.

php artisan internal-links:recount   # every post again, as Rank Math's "Update Links"

use Kitloom\InternalLinks\Models\LinkedPost;

LinkedPost::query()->find($id)->incomingLinks;   // the links that lead to the post

AI agents

With kitloom/ai installed, an agent whose user has view_internal_links reads the posts with their counts, the most linked-to first, or only the orphans — published posts nobody links to, the ones to link to when it writes (internal_links_report); the links themselves, of one post or to one post (internal_links_list); and counts every post again, as "Update Links" (internal_links_recount). kitloom-internal-links.ai.register false — no link report tools.

For other modules

Kitloom\InternalLinks\Events\LinksCounted is announced every time a post's links were counted again — the post and its rows as they are now. kitloom/link-checks listens to it to check the new addresses.