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What Is Descriptive Link Text, and Why Does It Matter?

Descriptive link text is the visible words of a link that say where it goes. “Read the methodology” is descriptive; “click here” is not. It matters for accessibility, for search engines, and for answer engines mapping your site.

What "Good" Looks Like

Good link text describes the destination without needing the surrounding sentence. We check your links against the same descriptive-link-text standard we hold our own site to — and yes, we gate ourselves on it too.

We show the meaning and our disclosed bands — never a secret weight or threshold.

Now check your own site

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Live check · runs on your site

Check Descriptive Link Text on a Real Domain

Enter a domain and we'll run the real read — and tell you plainly if the signal isn't there or the page can't be reached.

A real, single-signal read through the same machinery the full scan uses. We report what we can measure and label what we can't.

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