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Are You Using the Five Types of Links Properly?
copyblogger.com — Not all links are created equally, and not all links serve the same purpose. Brian Clark reminds us that using click here as anchor text is still valid. But Lisa Barone disagrees; her argument being that keywords in the anchor text are critical. They ’re both right. In fact, there are 5 types of links that are regularly used...
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- florchakh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8People need to know how to use anchor text properly
- resplence, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3The 'title' property, or 'alt', as it was made popular with IE, is also a very important aspect of linking and was completely overlooked in the article. They can turn 'click here', 'friendly' and 'notice me' links into semantic content. If only more people knew about them, this discussion would be meaningless, as it should.
- raynar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8who gives a *****?
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1People who care about their search engine rankings. All Google's fault.
- mcraigw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1
Here is the Coral Cache Link to the Article:
http://www.copyblogger.com.nyud.net/link-right/
- blogspinner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4hallelujah. though in my experience, many bloggers don't understand how.
- BlogEx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's a tough line to walk balancing anchor text with action text...
- joegibes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Engadget uses the #4. "Notice" Links too often.
Look at all the links in the text of this article:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/steve-jobs-subp ...
NOTE: It's not the best example I could find, but it works. - arjie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I wonder if I'm doing it right, I just name what I'm linking to, so the link will be "proof that Fletcher Hanks is nuts" and the title attribute will be some thing about that or just something I feel like saying related to that. :)
- busket, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9I'm glad someone is finally reigning in the link anarchy that is the internet. I just don't know where we'd be without self-proclaimed experts to arbitrarily decide the proper way in which use links.
- MellerTime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Where do I send the money?
- WhiteTigerEyes, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3I simply will not waste time trying to read an article where almost every other word is a link. Those articles always seem to e trying to hard and therefore cause me to automatically distrust them.
Oh yea and links that are not underlined are almost always easier on the eyes please. Thanks- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Have you noticed the sites that now have double underlines? Drives me nuts. I think they're links to a search engine or something rather than a URL.
- EricSchC1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Those are usually 3rd party added links that have pop-up preview windows of the page they're linking to. Kinda annoying in some cases, pretty useful in others.
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Have you noticed the sites that now have double underlines? Drives me nuts. I think they're links to a search engine or something rather than a URL.
- duck1123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Hmmm... And here I thought links were to bring you to the next state of your web application. Go figure.
- blueimac540c, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3did anyone else read that as "russian bear" at first?
- socialidiocy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I think you're referring to a different story
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2"get your free X today!" - Ravers, unite!
- TheSolomon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Whatever, you know only the lame ass wanna be "hard core" kids call it 'X.' All the cool kids call it 'E.' :-D
Seriously, though, I thought the same thing as you.
- TheSolomon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Whatever, you know only the lame ass wanna be "hard core" kids call it 'X.' All the cool kids call it 'E.' :-D
- democracysucks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9This is retarded. There is no "proper" way to use links. None of those 'types" of links listed were actually created--they're just categories made up after the fact to describe how people are already using links. As long as the code works, it's proper.
- meshman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Links are links. There are no more 5 different types of links than there is a second version of the web. Will we ever be free of these people that just declare ***** like this and expect everybody to follow?
- meshman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Links are links. There are no more 5 different types of links than there is a second version of the web. Will we ever be free of these people that just declare ***** like this and expect everybody to follow?
- krets, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Dugg down for omitting the DiggMirror type of link.
- ipvenom, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0o i forgot i have something else to say to hay myspace if you read this your ***** will proly get ***** up cous I'm pissed DONT YOU EVER EVER ***** WITH MY CODE that ive wrote for my myspace yea I'm talking about a scrolling marquee clickable text yahoo pm box i built that they changed to go to there gay ass msplinks.com instead of a yahoo im from the clickable text. yea that's write they have acess to all ur ***** its called a sql for you dumb ***** who dont know no better see every operator for myspace has acess to ur data kept in its sql were ur email login and password are held
- NoNamesLeft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4'Click here' is never a logical choice for any link, it's the worst anchor text you can use and is especially awful for people with screen readers. The only reason you would use this is if you are trying to hide what the link is and hoping someone will click on it inadvertently, not a good attitude to take. Also, not giving people links to 'very helpful resources' means you probably don't have the 'very helpful resources' the reader is looking for, and trying to imprison a reader by not giving useful links is not going to change the fact they are going to go elsewhere for what they want. People will stay on your site or bookmark it if they find it interesting, and more and more people are starting to use tabs.
The other thing is that the blog page itself is a great example of how incredibly ugly it is to look at a page with 'link fever', I just Google starts punishing people like this where it is obviously just a glorified link farm. - radiodead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0at least they know how to do this:
Error: 503 Service Unavailable
www.copyblogger.com: Connection refused
where's that mirror again...
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