The “Click Here” Dilemma

It was bound to come up sooner or later, someone asked me to make a change to their web site which included the infamous “…blah blah blah, Click here” linked text. In my scramble to find the best counter, I stumbled upon this article from Dey Alexander Consulting. I thought the arguments were well articulated and straight to the point.

It’ s amazing that this is still as prevalent as it is. It would be pretty funny if we went shopping, and inside every store at the cash register you saw a sign that said “Pay Here” (Wait, I think I have seen that). Do we need that sign? I’m hoping the idea of underlined text colored differently than it’s surrounding paragraph is as common as the cash register one day. Oh, I almost forgot, if you are expecting your site to be accessed considerably from any mobile device the idea of “click” is non-existent, there isn’t even a mouse.