Links: Internal Outlinks With No Anchor Text

Pages that have internal links without anchor text, or images that are hyperlinked without alt text.

Anchor text is the visible text and words used in hyperlinks that provide users and search engines context about the content of the target page.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Links’ tab and ‘Internal Outlinks With No Anchor Text’ filter, and export all URLs using the ‘Export’ button.

Internal outlinks without anchor text can be seen in the ‘Outlinks’ tab, with the ‘All Link Types’ filter set to ‘Hyperlinks’, where the ‘Anchor Text’ column is blank, or if an image, the ‘Alt Text’ column is also blank.

Export in bulk via ‘Bulk Export > Links > Internal Outlinks With No Anchor Text’.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when pages have internal links without anchor text or images that are hyperlinked, but lack alt text.

For example, if the following page:

https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/

Had a link such as:

<a href="https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/"></a>

How To Fix

Review the missing anchor text outlinks and where appropriate include useful and descriptive anchor text to help users and search engines.