Want your WP AI Writer posts to travel farther, rank better, and convert more, without adding much manual work? Pair it with a lean stack of free WordPress plugins that handle social media posting, reader experience and SEO, and performance. Below is a setup tested on multiple sites with quick settings, pitfalls to avoid, and automation recipes (including multi-site tips).
You built WP AI Writer to do the heavy lifting: generate, schedule, and publish quality articles at scale. But the flywheel really starts spinning when you wrap that output in the right distribution, structure, authority, and speed layers. The good news: you can do it with free plugins and a few opinionated settings. Below is a practical, narrative walkthrough of how to turn each publish into more reach, better rankings, and stronger engagement.
How plugins work together for content generation with WP AI Writer
- WP AI Writer generates and schedules posts (single site or 100+ sites).
- Easy ToC auto-inserts jump links (H2/H3) to improve readability and SERP snippets.
- Yoast sets consistent SEO titles/meta + Open Graph for clean shares.
- Internal Link Juicer adds contextual internal links to cornerstone and clusters.
- Contextual Related Posts recirculates readers at the bottom of each post.
- Jetpack Social / WP to Buffer instantly syndicates to FB/LI (and X if using Buffer).
- Cache plugin purges and repost-caches for speed after publish/update.
- Broken Link Checker sweeps weekly to keep everything error-free.
Result: Zero-touch distribution, clean on-page structure, automatic internal links, fast pages, fewer 404s.
TL;DR: The Free WordPress Plugins Stack
Goal | Plugin | Why it helps | Key tips |
---|---|---|---|
Auto-share to social | Jetpack Social | Free, scales to unlimited sites; Facebook + LinkedIn; schedule or auto-share | Set default share message; add UTM tags; no X/Twitter support |
Auto-share incl. X | WP to Buffer | Supports X/Twitter; great for re-queues | Scale is trickier across many sites; use profiles/queues per site |
Catch empty/fake links | Broken Link Checker | Finds 404s & bad anchors (rare with GPT-5 era, but still happens) | Run weekly scans; auto-unlink or fix in bulk |
Smart internal links | Internal Link Juicer | Auto-links by keyword; boosts topical authority & crawlability | Add keyword rules per post; cap links per post; blacklist money pages |
Auto table of contents | Easy Table of Contents | Improves UX, jump links, and snippet eligibility | Enable auto-insert on posts; limit to H2/H3; sticky TOC optional |
On-page SEO | Yoast SEO | Titles, meta, schema, social graph | Use templates; enable Open Graph; choose a single schema source |
Increase pages/session | Contextual Related Posts | Internal recirculation module | Place after content; 4–8 cards; exclude thin/utility pages |
Speed & caching | W3 Total Cache or LiteSpeed Cache or Jetpack Boost | Faster loads → better rankings & crawl budget | Use one cache plugin; enable page cache + CDN; defer JS |
Pro tip: Don’t stack multiple cache plugins. Pick one that fits your hosting. LiteSpeed for LSWS servers, W3TC for general purpose, Jetpack Boost for safe defaults.
1. Turn every post publish into social distribution: Social share, the smart way
Your fresh posts shouldn’t sit quietly waiting for Google. They should immediately fan out to your audiences. If you want to scale to dozens, or hundreds, of WordPress sites, Jetpack Social is the simplest backbone for automatic sharing. Connect Facebook and LinkedIn once per site, set a default share message with a couple of UTM parameters, and your posts will push out the moment they go live. It’s free, reliable, and, crucially, scales to any number of sites without drama.

Jetpack Social doesn’t post to X/Twitter, though, so if X is part of your distribution plan, pair it with WP to Buffer. Buffer handles X beautifully and lets you queue variations: one share on publish, one a few days later with a different hook, another in a month for evergreen reminders. For a single brand, Buffer is painless; for many sites, it’s still fine but requires a lot more work to manage or to subscribe to a paid plan.

The result: articles leave the nest on autopilot, with clean previews and consistent tracking across your favorite social media. Caches warm up from real traffic while search engines pick up early social signals.
2. Eliminate credibility leaks: Catch broken or empty links
The newest models (GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, Claude 4…) are vastly better at avoiding hallucinated URLs and phantom anchors, but the web moves and things break. A weekly sweep from Broken Link Checker protects your credibility and user experience. It flags 404, weird redirects, and unusual link patters. Fix or unlink in bulk and move on. Think of it as housekeeping for trust: a clean site keeps readers (and crawlers) coming back.

3. Build topical authority on autopilot: Contextual internal links that feel human
If you publish at scale, manually weaving internal links becomes the bottleneck. Internal Link Juicer gives you the best of both worlds for nifty link-building tactics: natural, context-aware links without the spammy feel. Choose a handful of keyword variations for each post, especially your cornerstone guides, and let the plugin do the automatically add links in other articles when it finds your keywords. You can also define keywords that are separated by few other undefined words. Cap total links per post so the page reads like a person wrote it. Over time, your site develops tidy “topic neighborhoods,” where new posts automatically support the right pillars and your pillars keep their ranking power with a steady flow of internal signal.

A subtle but powerful side-effect: crawl efficiency. When every new post automatically routes readers (and bots) to a relevant set of deeper pages, you raise pages-per-session and nudge more URLs into regular indexing.
4. Structure that invites reading: Automatic Table of Contents done right
Long-form content is WP AI Writer’s home turf, and long-form loves structure. Easy Table of Contents inserts a tight, unintrusive jump menu that surfaces your H2 through H6 hierarchy without clutter. Keep it simple, H2s and H3s only, auto-insert after the first H2, and let smooth scrolling do the rest. Readers get the part they want faster, which reduces pogo-sticking; search engines get clearer signals about what lives where on the page, which often improves sitelinks and snippet breadth. On short posts, skip the TOC entirely to keep the experience lean.

5. Metadata, previews, and recirculation: The quiet compounding effects
Uber-famous for any WP users, it’s still important to remind you of the benefits of Yoast SEO. Yoast isn’t about chasing green lights, it’s about consistency. Use it to stamp clean titles, meta descriptions, and Open Graph tags across your catalog so every article produces attractive, predictable previews wherever it’s shared. Lock in a sensible title template, set a default OG image for posts without a custom thumbnail, and choose a single schema source to avoid conflicts.

Then, keep readers onboard. Contextual Related Posts placed at the end of each article acts like a polite concierge: “If you liked this, you’ll love these.” Bias recommendations toward the same category or cluster, show real thumbnails, and keep it to four or eight suggestions. It’s simple, it works, and it compounds: every post helps the others breathe a little longer.

6. Speed is strategy: One cache, tuned to your host
Another obvious choice, but that still needs to be repeated, as nothing kills momentum like a slow site. Pick one speed tool and commit. On LiteSpeed servers, LiteSpeed Cache is the obvious choice for page caching, image optimization, and QUIC.cloud CDN integration. On general hosting, W3 Total Cache delivers a sturdy page cache with conservative minification and object caching if you have Redis. If you just want safe wins without fiddling, Jetpack Boost gives you Critical CSS, image lazy-loading, and JS deferral with minimal risk.

The tactical move after you connect social sharing: publish, purge, and let the first wave of social clicks warm the cache. That way, both humans and crawlers experience your site at its best.
How it feels in practice: A day in the life of a post
You schedule a post through WP AI Writer. It goes live at 10:00.
Easy TOC slips itself beneath the first subheading; Yoast stamps the OG tags; Internal Link Juicer quietly threads two links to your cornerstone guide and one to a related deep dive; Contextual Related Posts tees up five relevant reads at the bottom.
At 10:01, Jetpack Social pushes to your Facebook Page and LinkedIn Company profile with clean images and UTM-tagged links. If X matters for this brand, Buffer posts a short hook on publish, with a second variant scheduled three days later. Your cache plugin purges the changed pages and rebuilds quickly as clicks arrive.
Friday evening, Broken Link Checker does its weekly sweep and catches a vendor PDF that moved; you unlink it and replace it with the updated URL in seconds.
No drama. More reach. Better time-on-page. Healthier internal linking. Faster loads. That’s compounding.
Scaling to many sites without losing your mind
Running a network? Standardize. Export/import plugin settings so each site inherits the same social UTM format, the same internal-link caps, the same TOC behavior, the same related-posts layout. On Buffer, name queues per site and keep them separate. On Jetpack Social, connect each site to its own Facebook and LinkedIn destinations and reuse the same share template. You’ll thank yourself when you’re on site number thirty-seven and it behaves exactly like site number one.
Don’t overdo it: keep it human
Automation is a megaphone; you still control the tune. Keep internal linking tasteful and varied. Don’t force a table of contents onto short pieces. Don’t stack two cache plugins “just in case.” And don’t paste the same social message everywhere, use a different hook for LinkedIn than for X. The systems above remove grunt work so you can spend your energy on better briefs, sharper headlines, and stronger images: the things readers actually remember.
KPI Checklist: Track What Actually Moves the Needle
- Reach: Social clicks/post (by network, via UTM).
- Discoverability: Impressions & average position (GSC) for target keywords.
- Engagement: Avg. time on page, scroll depth, pages/session (GA4).
- Internal linking: % of posts with ≥5 incoming internal links (Search Console “Links” report).
- Speed: Core Web Vitals pass rate, LCP & INP (PageSpeed/API).
- Hygiene: Broken links resolved/week; redirect chains removed.
The Payoff
With this stack in place, WP AI Writer becomes a set-and-scale engine:
- Reach: Auto-syndication gets each post in front of audiences instantly.
- Quality: TOCs, clean metadata, and internal links make posts scannable, rankable, and bingeable.
- Speed: Caching keeps pages fast for users and bots.
- Reliability: Broken links get caught before they hurt UX or SEO.
Set it once, clone settings across sites, and let the system compound.
Grow organic traffic on 1 to 100 WP sites on autopilot.
Automate content for 1-100+ sites from one dashboard: high quality, SEO-optimized articles generated, reviewed, scheduled and published for you. Grow your organic traffic at scale!
Discover More Choose Your Plan