Links: Pages With Empty Anchor Tags

Pages that contain an <a> tag with an href attribute that is empty and does not include a link.

This means there isn’t anything for users or search engines to follow.

How to Analyse in the SEO Spider

View URLs with this issue in the ‘Links’ tab and ‘Links: Pages With Empty Anchor Tags’ filter and export all URLs using the ‘Export’ button.

Links with empty anchor tags can be seen in the lower ‘Outlinks’ tab with a blank ‘To’ URL.

Bulk Export pages with empty anchor tags via ‘Bulk Export > Links > Pages With Empty Anchor Tags’.

What Triggers This Issue

This issue is triggered when pages have an <a> tag with an href attribute that is empty and does not include a link.

For example –

<a href="">
<a href=>


How To Fix

Review the pages and determine whether href links need to be added to the empty <a> tags.

Update them to include a valid link which users and search engines are able to follow.