Internal Linking Suggestions and Redirect Manager in Yoast Premium

Yoast SEO Premium offers two key features related to your query:

1. Internal Linking Suggestions: This feature automatically analyses your content and suggests relevant internal links while you write. It scans your site’s existing posts and pages, compares prominent words in your current post with others, and recommends the best fitting articles to link to. These suggestions appear in the Yoast SEO sidebar, making it easy to add links by copying or dragging them into your content. This helps build a strong internal linking structure without manually searching for related content.

2. Redirect Manager: This premium feature allows you to manage URL redirects easily, especially useful when URLs change (e.g., after migrating a site or restructuring categories). You can add old URLs and redirect them to new ones to avoid 404 errors and preserve SEO value. However, if you want to update internal links in your content to point directly to the new URLs (instead of relying on redirects), you need to manually update those links or use custom scripts, as Yoast does not provide a built-in function or hook to automatically replace old URLs with new ones in content.

Additional notes:

• Yoast SEO Premium can automatically create redirects when URLs change, but this can be disabled via code if desired.
• The internal linking tool also supports blocks like the Related Links block and Subpages block to add multiple internal links in a structured way.

In summary, Yoast SEO Premium’s internal linking suggestions help you efficiently add relevant internal links during content creation, while the Redirect Manager helps you handle URL changes and redirects, but updating internal links to new URLs requires manual or custom solutions.