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Anchor Text Analyzer

Paste the HTML of a page or article to extract every anchor text and see which ones are vague, empty or repeated.

HTML containing the links

Your domain (optional, to tell internal from external)

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Privacy and cost

This tool runs in your browser. What you type or paste is not sent to our servers and it costs nothing to use.

How it works

Paste the HTML containing your links and, optionally, your domain name.
The tool extracts each <a href> link with its text (an image's alt attribute serves as anchor) and its target.
You get the anchor table, the generic, empty and repeated ones, and a CSV export.

Example

Extract of 8 links: two “click here”, three “SEO audit” pointing to three different pages, one raw URL used as anchor and one clickable image with no alt text. Result: 2 generic anchors, 1 empty link, “SEO audit” repeated 3 times with 3 targets, 1 URL as anchor, for 4 distinct anchor texts.

What the result means

Anchor text tells readers and search engines what the target page is about. Descriptive anchors beat “click here”. Google uses link text as one signal among others and publishes no ideal ratio: the repetition thresholds in this tool are guides, not rules.

Common problems this tool helps with

“Click here” or “read more” say nothing about the destination, especially to screen reader users.
A link with no text and no alt is invisible to assistive technology.
The same anchor text pointing to several pages blurs what the links mean.
A raw URL as anchor text is hard to read and does not explain the content.

Frequently asked questions

Which anchors count as generic?

A built-in list in French, English, Spanish and Arabic: “click here”, “read more”, “learn more”, “cliquez ici”, “leer más”, “اقرأ المزيد” and similar.

Is a repeated anchor a problem?

Not necessarily. Repeating an anchor to the same page is normal. The warning sign is the same text pointing to different pages, or obvious over-optimization.

How are internal and external links told apart?

Enter your domain: a relative link or a link to that domain is internal, the rest are external. Without a domain, only relative links are classed as internal.