Are links without anchor text bad for seo

Question

We where redesigning our website and we noticed certain elements having this structure :
<div class="Item">
  <div class="Text">
    <span class="Name">Name of Profile</span>
    <span class="City">City</span>
  </div>
  <div class="Link">
    <a href="http://example.com/"></a>
  </div>
</div>

My question is if an empty anchor text is bad for SEO and Google. How do they handle this kind of link currently?

Answer 1

Empty anchor doesn't prevent or hinder your page from being indexed. Adding an empty anchor can bring up the relevance of your page in google sometimes. Empty anchor text is not a must-have thing as google doesn't need it to follow a @href URL. Google doesn't consider empty anchor text as bad or harmful.
But anchor text is a helpful element for your ranking. To qualify the resources you create a reference Google uses anchor text so utilize the advantages of anchor text.