- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
Scope and evidence
Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement REQUIRED (for that link to be crawled).
{kinds} lists the observed kinds among: anchors without href, javascript: URLs, href on non-anchor elements, routerLink attributes. Informational because the scanner cannot tell navigation from in-page controls; the consequence for discovery is scored by SEO-LINK-02.
Observations
Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.
uncrawlable{n} links on {url} cannot be crawled by Google ({kinds}), for example {example}. "Google can only crawl your link if it's an <a> HTML element (also known as anchor element) with an href attribute."
Sources, quoted
These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.
“Google can only crawl your link if it's an <a> HTML element (also known as anchor element) with an href attribute.”
[G-LINKS] SEO link best practices for Google · Make your links crawlable · last updated 2025-12-10
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/links-crawlable
Related rules
- SEO-LINK-02Every intended page is linked from another page