Uncrawlable Links

Configuration > Spider > Crawl > Uncrawlable Links

By default the SEO Spider will not crawl or store URLs that are not within an <a> tag with an href attribute.

Google can only crawl your link if it’s an <a> HTML element (also known as anchor element) with an href attribute. Most links in other formats won’t be parsed and extracted by Google’s crawlers.

Google can’t reliably extract URLs from <a> elements that don’t have an href attribute or other tags that perform as links because of script events.

Uncrawlable link types include –

<span href=https://example.com>
<div href=https://example.com>
<a onclick="goto('https://example.com')">
<a href="javascript:goTo('products')">

Enabling the ‘store’ configuration will mean uncrawlable links will be stored and appear within the SEO Spider. Uncrawlable outlinks can be seen in the lower ‘Outlinks’ tab with the ‘Link Crawlability’ column filtered to ‘Uncrawlable’.

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Links’ tab and ‘Pages With Uncrawlable Internal Outlinks‘ filter.