by David Zemens

Choosing the proper words for your blog’s hyperlinks is an art form. When you give it some thought, you realize that there are many different ways to write the text for the link. One of the mistakes that many new bloggers make is to use link phrases like Click Here. The most highly regarded web standards organization, World Wide Web Consortium, makes the following recommendations to consider when developing your link text:

Provides some information when read out of context
Explains what the link offers
Doesn’t talk about mechanics
Is not a verb phrase

To read more about properly forming your link phrases, visit the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.

January 8th, 2007 | Web Stuff

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1 Comments & Trackbacks to “Don’t Use “Click Here” as Link Text”

#1 Mike Cherim had this to say:
Posted: January 17th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

There be truth in that my friend. Since it can be taken out of context it’s alway a good if idea to finish the statement. For example, on some sites you see something like this. “To sign up, please click here,” while the better alternative is to write “Please sign up.”