Comments on: Click Here For Better Usability And SEO

By: Andri Yarusman

Andri Yarusman — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:53:04 +0000

I like your explanation above … as Penguin also cought many sites used anchor text with this anchor in their backlink profile …

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:18:44 +0000

In reply to Brian.

Love that idea, Brian.

Maybe the whole “click for…” and “click here” will disappear as new generations grow up with and on the ‘net?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:55:41 +0000

One could involve the purpose of clicking: Click for …..

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:36:09 +0000

No matter how much time and effort you put into a site you will always get people that don’t what to click. Sometimes if you don’t put “click here” certain people just won’t know what to do.

By: Kemaron Whirry

Kemaron Whirry — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:30:01 +0000

Well I agreed that google really give more value and importance to anchor text. When we search different things at google than we can see the results accordingly.

By: PageTracer

PageTracer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:40:14 +0000

Title attribute can also be used with textual links, not only with images.

By: Clare Swindlehurst

Clare Swindlehurst — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:33:39 +0000

I too was going to mention accessibility but @Andrea beat me to it. A ream of click heres is useless to someone using a screen reader.

I find this one difficult to balance – having been trained to adhere to the DDA and think accessbility first I try to avoid click here – but from a user perspective I think inline links are often lost. I wrote a blog post about a file that could be downloaded and had the link as an inline and got reams of comments asking where the file could be downloaded from! In the end I had to break my own rules and add Click here to download…

If anyone has a perfect solution I would love to hear it!

By: wayne

wayne — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:58:27 +0000

yeah i agree what ann smarty says “Click Here” links give them absolutely no information…

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:12:48 +0000

I think that any issue where so many smart people disagree is obviously a complex one. From the usability perspective, I’m starting to think that it depends a bit on the intent of the link. If I have copy like:

“In barry’s recent article revealing that monkeys like bananas…”

I think it’s fine, from a usability standpoint, to link “Barry’s recent article” or “monkeys like bananas” (although they differ in SEO intent), instead of using a direct call to action.

If, on the other hand, you need a strong call to action, it may need to be overt. If I post:

“Next Friday, I’ll be doing a webinar on SEO…”

…and I want people to sign up, just linking “webinar on SEO” probably isn’t enough. Here, I think it’s ok to break the flow a bit and put in a direct call to action, such as “Click here to sign up”. Of course, you could use a hybrid approach, such as:

“Sign up for my SEO webinar next Friday…”

…or something similar, and then link “Sign up” (at least it’s part of the sentence that way). Not so great for SEO, but it is a situation where people need and expect a direct call to action.

By: Rob's Web Usability Site

Rob's Web Usability Site — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:06:32 +0000

This is all why the title of a page is so important. If you properly title your page, making it keyword rich, and make sense, it’s how people will link to it. That is an seo tip. For a usability tip, you should always link to a page using it’s title as the anchor text. That way, when visitor clicks it, they know they are on the right page, and know what to expect.