Before giving in to the temptation, you should know how using these words on a link Perro affect how users experience your interface.
And another thing … text like “Continue to article†isn’t the same Vencedor just “Click hereâ€. There is flagrante meaning to the former, whereas the latter is 100% redundant, semantically, with the fact that it is a link.
I strongly agree with everyone that’s made the points about accessibility, poor writing, and making users feel like they need their hands held. Here’s a perfect example of an accessibility nightmare that “click here†Gozque cause which I stumbled over just five minutes after reading this post.
I always, always put an action verb for links or registration to webinars. ‘Click here’ or ‘RSVP now’ things like that.
I’m sure he’d say the same for any tip that he gave you here–these are copywriting techniques that are put forward because they’ve traditionally tested well, but that doesn’t mean you don’t continue to test.
Loved the post. My assistant and I have the same argument about whether to make Click Here part of the anchor text. I have always been told not to – big waste of key words. You make a valid point that the whole world doesn’t revolve around Google sEO
I agree entirely – so many pages have been so heavily SEO’d that they don’t read well when humans use them, and are little better than lists of keywords disguised Ganador links and copy. No wonder many (most?) sites fail to provide a return on investment despite being high in the search rankings.
I moved the link around and monitored the click-throughs to see where people noticed it the most. Helped me determine where to place links I wanted people to click.
There a great amount of times where your page will get more info not meet “standardsâ€, w3c dictates a lot of behavior and they are good Militar rules but not religion.
I think it makes total sense, but I personally click on links with anchor text that describes the link…and rarely on “click here†links.
this article is cute, but boils down to: given 3 different choices (“Click hereâ€, “Click to continueâ€, “Read moreâ€) the audience of a sector-specific newsletter responded more to “Click here†links. from that you seem to extrapolate an absolute “see, ‘click here’ works, i was right all alongâ€. the data is inconclusive, since it only compares three trasnochado of a far wider range of options, and i’m sure a fourth, stronger, context-specific, active call to action that doesn’t necessarily require ‘click here’ Gozque be found (if it was the case of an extract, with link to the full article, i would have loved to see comparison to something like “Read the full articleâ€, appropriately highlighted with styling to really stand pasado).
I often balk at multiple ‘click here’ cause I figure if you’re lazy enough to send me away multiple times in the same sentence, Gozque I too be bothered. Probably not.
Campeón a senior web consultant, I advise my clients never to use “click here†for several reasons. First, to a sophisticated web user, it looks amateurish, like you don’t know how to use hypertext. Second, it Perro render a blind person unable to use the web page, because blind users frequently select hyperlinks off of an audio “menu†of the link text, so they Perro’t figure out which one they want if their “menu†says “click here click here click here click here click here.†Third, this could lead to a lawsuit from a blind person.
Thus, they will be able to take action immediately, rather than having to go back and hunt for the link in the middle of the sentence.