Anchor Text Extractor
Paste HTML and extract all anchor link texts and their href URLs for SEO analysis.
How to use this tool
- Enter html in the fields above.
- Results update instantly as you type — or click Calculate.
- Read your links found (text → url) and the full breakdown beneath it.
Paste HTML and extract all anchor link texts and their href URLs for SEO analysis.
How it works
Anchor text is the clickable, visible text of a hyperlink. In HTML it is the text between the opening anchor tag and the closing anchor tag. Search engines use anchor text as a relevance signal -- links pointing to a page with descriptive anchor text help search engines understand what that page is about.
Paste any HTML snippet or full page source into this tool and it extracts every anchor element, listing the anchor text alongside the href URL. This gives you a quick audit of all links on a page without having to read through raw HTML.
SEO professionals use this to audit internal linking strategies, check that link text is descriptive rather than generic ('click here'), and identify broken or missing href values. Developers use it to quickly inventory all links before a migration or refactor.
Worked example
Audit internal links on a page template
- View the source of a page in your browser (Ctrl+U) and copy the HTML.
- Paste the HTML into the tool's field.
- Review the extracted list of anchor text and href pairs.
- Identify any links using generic anchor text like 'click here' or 'read more' and update them.
A table of all anchor texts and URLs, revealing generic links that should be rewritten for SEO.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Pasting only a partial HTML snippet that does not contain the main content area -- you may miss the majority of the page's links.
- Ignoring empty anchor text results -- image links without alt text provide no anchor text signal to search engines.
- Not checking for duplicate anchor texts pointing to different URLs -- this can dilute the relevance signal for both destinations.
Key terms
- Anchor text
- The visible, clickable words in a hyperlink, wrapped in anchor tags in HTML.
- href
- The HTML attribute on an anchor tag that specifies the link destination URL.
- Generic anchor text
- Non-descriptive link text such as 'click here' or 'learn more' that provides no context to search engines about the linked page.
Frequently asked questions
- What is anchor text?
- Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. Search engines use it to understand the context of the linked page.
- Why does anchor text matter for SEO?
- Keyword-rich anchor text helps search engines understand what the linked page is about, which can boost rankings for those keywords.