Internal Anchor Text Distribution

A long article quietly accumulates forty internal links, and when you look closely half of them read click here or read more. Anchor text is one of the few context signals you fully control about the destination page, and spending it on an empty pronoun throws away cheap signal. Nobody counts that by eye across a thousand lines of HTML.

You paste the HTML and give it your internal host. The browser parser walks every a tag and counts as internal anything starting with a slash (but not a double slash) or any absolute URL whose host matches what you typed. Hash-only anchors are excluded. Two gotchas: relative hrefs without a leading slash, like page.html or ../other, are not recognized; and the host match is literal, so typing example.com while your links point at www.example.com returns nothing.

Paste rendered HTML — if your links are injected by JavaScript, raw view-source will not contain any of them. Anchor text is lowercased and checked against a list of generic phrases (here, click here, read more, more, link, plus their Portuguese equivalents). Image links with no text fall into an empty bucket, and those depend on the image alt to carry meaning. The HTML you paste never leaves your machine.