FA Tactical Tip: Keep Visitors on Your Website with Better Links
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Check the links on your website. If a link takes your reader OFF your website — maybe to someone else’s article on another site — change the way that the link works. Ask your web master to code the link to open a new window or tab. In other words, add a target attribute before closing the HREF tag. The target attribute is written target="_blank" When a visitor clicks on an outbound link, a new window or tab will open. In the background your site will still be open, too. DON’T use this code to link between pages within your own website or blog or you’ll really annoy the heck out of visitors who want to stay on your site. |
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Tell your webmaster that you want to keep people on your website by opening a new window or tab when you provide an outbound links. Read the information regarding Target Attributes, just so you understand how this works at http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp
If you write your own WordPress blog or WordPress-based website, when creating a link, place a check mark near "Open link in a new window/tab".
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