--- title: "Links with generic or empty text (seo/link-text)" description: "seo/link-text: Anchor text is a relevance signal for the target page and the only context screen-reader and agent users get; \"click here\" and icon-only…" canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/link-text lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # Links with generic or empty text `seo/link-text` · severity **warn** · category SEO · detected by `void seo` and `void audit` ## Why it matters Anchor text is a relevance signal for the target page and the only context screen-reader and agent users get; "click here" and icon-only links carry none. ## How to fix it Use descriptive anchor text ("Read the pricing FAQ"). Give icon-only links an aria-label. ## References - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable#anchor-text-placement - https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/seo/link-text ## More seo rules `void seo` reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in , self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates. - `heading-skip` Heading levels skip (h2 → h4) or headings are empty — [seo/heading-skip](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/heading-skip) - `img-alt-missing` without an alt attribute — [seo/img-alt-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/img-alt-missing) - `img-alt-quality` Alt text is a filename, a generic word, or overly long — [seo/img-alt-quality](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/img-alt-quality) - `links-not-crawlable` Navigation uses elements crawlers can't follow — [seo/links-not-crawlable](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/links-not-crawlable) - `broken-links` Internal links return 4xx/5xx (or go through redirects) — [seo/broken-links](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/broken-links) - `trailing-slash` Both trailing-slash and non-slash URLs serve 200 — [seo/trailing-slash](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/trailing-slash) - `hreflang-invalid` hreflang uses invalid codes or relative URLs — [seo/hreflang-invalid](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/hreflang-invalid) - `hreflang-not-reciprocal` hreflang set isn't self-referencing and reciprocal — [seo/hreflang-not-reciprocal](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/hreflang-not-reciprocal) Detected by `void seo` and `void audit`. Explain it in a terminal: `void rules seo/link-text`