False analysis: content element anchors are considered as internal links

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Please give us a description of what happened.

On a multilanguage website, localized TYPO3 content elements contain an anchor with its localized UID (e.g. <a id="c198"></a>).

These anchor links (missing the href attribute) are considered as internal links in the Yoast SEO analysis.

<!-- TYPO3SEARCH_begin -->
<div id="c197" class="frame frame-default frame-type-textmedia frame-layout-0">
    <a id="c198"></a>
    <header><h1 class="">Localized content element</h1></header>
        <div class="ce-textpic ce-center ce-above">
            <div class="ce-bodytext">
                <p>Some content</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
<!-- TYPO3SEARCH_end -->

Analysis result: "Internal links: You have enough internal links. Good job!"

Please describe what you expected to happen and why.

This result can be confusing for editors which try to optimize a web page.

The analysis should take into account, if an anchor actually contains the href attribute.

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1. Set up a minimal TYPO3 installation with two frontend languages.
2. Localize some content element in the TYPO3 backend.
3. Analyse the Page Translation containing the localized content.

Technical info

• TYPO3 version: 9.5.9
• Yoast SEO version: 5.1.0