How to disable the text link counter feature in Yoast SEO

The text link counter helps you keep track of the internal and outbound links in your texts. Links help crawlers find your posts and pages and figure out the structure of your site. Your visitors also use links to navigate your content. The text link counter feature is automatically enabled in Yoast SEO. You will find it in the Posts overview screen.

If you want to turn this feature off, follow the steps below.

1. In your WordPress Dashboard, go to Yoast SEO

   
   

2. Go to Settings

   
   

3. Under Site structure, toggle the Text link counter to Off

   The toggle will show a grey crossmark when it is off.
   
   

4. Click Save changes