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Arcio analyzes your WordPress content with AI and suggests internal links that make genuine editorial sense. Unlike keyword-matching plugins, Arcio understands what your content is actually about and surfaces the contextual links a simple text-match could never find.<\/p>\n\n
No API keys. No model setup. No third-party accounts.<\/strong> AI is included with every plan, including the free plan. Just install, activate, and start finding link opportunities.<\/p>\n\n How it works:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Key features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Plans and quotas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Arcio meters by analyses per month. One analysis = running Arcio on one post or page.<\/p>\n\n There are no site limits on any plan. Install Arcio on as many WordPress sites as you like \u2014 analyses are shared across all of them. Upgrade or downgrade at any time.<\/p>\n\n Privacy:<\/strong> Post titles and body text are sent to Arcio's managed AI service when you trigger an analysis. In addition, when a post or page is published or updated, its title and a short excerpt (roughly the first 300 words) are sent to generate a semantic embedding used for finding related content. No personal user data is transmitted. Content is processed in real time and is not permanently stored, logged, or sold. See the full privacy policy at https:\/\/getarcio.com\/privacy-policy\/.<\/p>\n\n Arcio relies on external services to analyze content and suggest internal links.<\/p>\n\n 1. Arcio Managed AI Relay<\/strong>\nThis plugin connects to the Arcio Managed AI Relay (hosted at 2. Google Gemini API<\/strong>\nThe Arcio Managed AI Relay forwards requests to the Google Gemini API ( That's it. No API keys to manage, no models to choose, no credits to top up.<\/p>\n\n Manual install:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n No. Arcio's AI runs on our managed infrastructure and is included with every plan, including the free plan. There's nothing to set up beyond activating the plugin.<\/p><\/dd>\n The free plan gives you 10 analyses per calendar month with full access to all suggestion features. It's genuinely useful for small sites and a great way to evaluate Arcio before committing to a paid plan.<\/p><\/dd>\n One analysis = running Arcio on one post or page. The analysis examines that post against your entire content library and produces suggested links. Indexing posts (the initial summary step) does not count toward your analysis quota.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. You can install Arcio on as many WordPress sites as you want on any plan. Your monthly analysis quota is shared across all of them.<\/p><\/dd>\n No \u2014 and that's intentional. Arcio surfaces suggestions, but nothing changes in your content until you click Apply<\/strong>. You stay in full editorial control. If you do apply a link and want to undo it, every insertion uses WordPress revisions so you can roll back from the post editor.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Post content is sent to Arcio's managed AI service when you trigger an analysis, and a short excerpt (title plus roughly the first 300 words) is sent when a post is published or updated so its semantic embedding stays current. Content is processed in real time and is never permanently stored, logged, or sold. Authentication uses an HMAC signature derived from your Freemius install credentials \u2014 no plain credentials are ever transmitted.<\/p><\/dd>\n Internal linking improvements typically show up within 4\u201312 weeks as Googlebot recrawls and reweights your pages. Sites with larger archives generally see faster, more significant gains. Internal linking is a structural improvement that compounds over time, not a one-time quick fix.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Arcio loads no scripts or styles on your site's frontend. All processing happens in the WordPress admin area, only when you trigger it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Links you applied to your post content remain in place \u2014 they're standard HTML links in your published content. Suggestion data and post indexes are retained in the database. If you uninstall the plugin entirely, its database tables are removed.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, anytime, from your Arcio account. Your plan stays active through the end of the current billing period.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n
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https:\/\/getarcio.com\/?rest_route=\/arcio-relay\/v1\/<\/code>) to proxy requests to the AI model securely without exposing an API key in the plugin code.\n- What is sent:<\/strong> When you click \"Analyze Content\" or run bulk analysis, the post titles and body content are sent to this relay service. When a post or page is published or updated, its title and a short excerpt (roughly the first 300 words) are sent to generate a semantic embedding.\n- When is it sent:<\/strong> Data is sent when you explicitly trigger an analysis, when a background analysis job you started runs, and when a post or page is published or updated (embedding refresh).\n- Privacy & Terms:<\/strong>\n - Terms of Service<\/a>\n - Privacy Policy<\/a><\/p>\n\ngenerativelanguage.googleapis.com<\/code>) to generate embeddings and analyze text. The plugin itself never contacts Google directly \u2014 all AI traffic goes through the Arcio relay.\n- What is sent:<\/strong> Post content and titles are forwarded by the relay to the Gemini API to understand semantic context and generate linking suggestions.\n- When is it sent:<\/strong> Data is sent only when you trigger a post analysis, or when a post embedding is generated after a post is saved or analyzed.\n- Privacy & Terms:<\/strong>\n - Google Privacy Policy<\/a>\n - Google Terms of Service<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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