This small update is a big deal for streamlining your work.
Now, when you use the Copy Full Page Draft feature to blend the new copy with your existing text, your outbound links carry over. RivalFlow keeps your links (internal and external) in the new combined draft. Say goodbye to accidental overwriting or scrambling to rebuild links after you paste them into your editor.
This added functionality protects the work you put in to format the links, and it helps to fight mistakes that could occur if you had to add the links back.
Mostly, I like having one less step to worry about when I update my page.
If you're wondering why we're just doing it now, it starts with one of our guiding rules: do no harm. You trust us to help with your existing content, so we won't take anything away or alter something that you have in place.
We skipped over a page's links in the past for one reason: erring on the side of caution. Most LLMs (like ChatGPT and others) can’t be trusted with URLs. They’ll hallucinate, change the case, drop dashes, or just flat-out break things. And because bad links can quietly derail your SEO or user experience, we had to be really cautious.
We built extra QA processes and safety checks to make sure every link stays intact, and after rounds of testing, it's ready.
You might say we got a little too protective, because one small exception keeps a link we otherwise would have stripped…
There’s one exception, and it’s a Google Docs limitation: It won’t allow mailto: or tel: links to be pasted as active hyperlinks. So, when that happens, RivalFlow doesn’t drop the link. Instead, it pastes the full href code so you still have the link—you just need to format it manually if needed.
Microsoft Word and other editors don’t have this issue.
You might not even notice it’s working—but you will notice when it saves you time and keeps your content clean.
I stumbled upon this update when I pasted a full page draft and started skimming how the article flowed with the new copy. As my eyes ran across the page, I spotted links in the pasted document and was thrilled to see the user-friendly update in action.
That small detail is a big help.
It gives me more flexibility to paste the lead-up text from my original page when it flows into the new copy. If RivalFlow surrounds existing text with new copy, it might be easier to paste everything at once. (Green text is new. The black text was already there.)
I can grab the entire section and paste it over what's already there. I won't lose that link, either.
We're still looking at ways to preserve images, too. Considering that some CMS platforms require images to be uploaded (instead of pasted) is making that a bigger hurdle. However, if your image includes an outbound link, that will be preserved in the draft, giving you a clue that you should watch for the existing image when you paste.
I immediately gave our team kudos when I saw this update go live.
It saves me from mistakes, from extra clean-up, and from having to make surgical edits in my CMS when blanket moves will give me the same results. As for confidence: my original text and links are protected. I can trust the tool even more than I did before.
