Does Jonathan read my blog?

Does Sun's CEO read my blog?  Well, Jonathan's pretty busy. And so he must've accidentally missed my posting from today about "click here" as a worst practice, judging from the "click here" links in The Glamor in Mass Transit(?), e.g. paragraphs 4 and 12.

Of course, with Jonathan's blog, you know the links are likely to be interesting, so maybe you'll click on them even though they just say "click here."
 
:-)

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Posted on: Feb 26, 2007

Posted by: MartinHardee

Category: Usability

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hi Martin! I don't know if Jonathan reads your blog but I sure do and I'm sworn off of click-here's now. :)

Posted by melanie gao on February 27, 2007 at 12:29 AM PST #

Not everything is an advertisement.

Posted by Anonymous on February 27, 2007 at 12:45 AM PST #

Absolutely true. In fact *most* things on our web are not ads. The guidelines around "click here" still apply, though... whether a link is an ad or just useful context, it's always important for people to be able to tell at a glance what they're getting.

Posted by Martin Hardee on February 27, 2007 at 06:14 PM PST #

I run a fairly popular website and have been using Google's Webmaster Tools to see what words on other people's sites link to mine. "Here" is in the top ten, probably because of the evil phrase "click here". Run a quick search on here , it's interesting.

Posted by Dan Hellerich on March 21, 2007 at 10:43 AM PDT #

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