{"id":315,"date":"2008-04-29T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T06:20:31","slug":"making-links-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/making-links-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"Making links useful…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been to two websites today that reminded me of the post\u00a0I wrote back in February about linking to relevant information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first one (and as tempted as I am to link to the page, I will only say it was a government information site!) had a whole page about a particular form – what it should be used for and when to use it. At the bottom of the page, it read:<\/p>\n

For a copy of this form, visit our website at www.url<\/a>\u00a0or call us on 12345679.<\/p>\n

Given I was already on their website, a link to their homepage really didn’t help me! It took me another five minutes to actually find the form on their site.<\/p>\n

The second site had a similar message but the link itself at least went to their form. This obviously helped me find the form, but I nearly didn’t click on the link as I expected it to go the to homepage.<\/p>\n

And that is a reminder to make the text of any links meaningful<\/a>, too. How hard would it have been to write something like “For a copy of this form, click here”?<\/p>\n

So from personal experience today, I request you always think of what will help your readers when you add links to anything you write.<\/p>\n

Use your words wisely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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