{"id":198,"date":"2010-09-16T05:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T09:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-09-21T02:18:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T06:18:23","slug":"how-to-write-effective-hyperlinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/how-to-write-effective-hyperlinks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write effective hyperlinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hyperlink is a more convenient way of jumping from one page to another. That’s all hyper linking is on most websites.<\/p>\n

  • While using hyperlinks use same wording on every page. Don\u2019t put “How to join” in one page and “sign up” in another. You do not know where your user has come from. Do remember that it is irritating for the user to click on several pages to reach the desired target.<\/li>\n

    Don’t use these link phrases as they are not meaningful
    \nClick here<\/span> to enter
    \nClick<\/span> on this
    \nSelect<\/span> this<\/p>\n

  • Never put up too many links within the text. Make your reader know your point instead of dashing off to another page only because there is a link. Try to keep link words as short as possible (2-4 words only).<\/li>\n

    Know about different country rainfall statistics<\/span> for 2001 and 2000
    \nis better than
    \nClick here<\/span> to know about rainfall statistics<\/p>\n

  • If you want to keep sentence length to a minimum, use link titles. Try out<\/li>\n

    See rainfall statistics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A hyperlink is a more convenient way of jumping from one page to another. That’s all hyper linking is on most websites. While using hyperlinks use same wording on every page. Don\u2019t put “How to join” in one page and “sign up” in another. You do not know where your user has come from. Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copywriting","category-seo-copywriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/copywriting-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}