Generic anchor text
Links whose visible text is generic — "click here", "read more", "details". Link text tells search engines and screen-reader users what is on the other side. "Read more" says nothing about it.
NoticeLINK-002 · Links · checked on every page
Where it usually comes from
Buttons and teasers written as "read more" or "click here" by habit, or theme defaults that nobody changed.
How to fix it
- Write link text that names the destination: "Winter boots" rather than "see more".
- Where a design needs a short button, put the destination in the text around it or in an aria-label.
- Change the theme default once, in the template, rather than link by link.
How to check it yourself
Scan the page for links whose text would make no sense read on its own, outside the paragraph.
What it looks like in a report
Notice 6 links use generic text such as "read more". · /blog
The blog list uses "read more" under each post; the post title makes a better link. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)
How the audit counts it
LINK-002 is a notice in the links category, and weighs lightly in that category’s score. When it appears on many pages built from the same template, the report shows it once, with the number of pages it covers — because one change in the template fixes all of them.
If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.
Other links checks
- Too many links on the page · LINK-001
- Internal links without a valid href · LINK-003
- Internal links to dead pages · LINK-004
- Orphan pages · LINK-005
- Internal links written to another address of the site · LINK-006
- Pages reached by one internal link only · LINK-007
Find it on your site
A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.