Are too many empty anchor links bad for SEO?

taco_truck_tom

It sounds like a stupid question, but I couldn't find an answer: Are too many empty anchor links bad for SEO? We have 4-6 empty anchor links per page that trigger actions like a contact popup form, Woocommerce tabs on a product page etc. The syntax is like: domain.com/# or domain.com/#do-something These links do NOT link to specific HTML content (like the good old back-to-top link). Our SEO expert does not like it, since his tools found too many...

Originally asked by user2516117 on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Links are a way for Google to crawl the site and understand the site structure and pass the right signal. I don't see in your case that having too many links will cause any issues, even when these links are not to a specific HTML content, empty # used for JS this is fine and this is not something to worry about and will not make any difference.

Full answer by Amine Dahimene: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/130494 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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