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Definition · Supertopics: web · Subtopics: backlinks, link-rot (non-exhaustive) · “links” × ? · “links” RSS feed (per email)

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
A Button That Links to a Random Post in HTML and CSS Only (chr/fro)191
buttons, randomness, css
The Difference Between a Button and a Link190
buttons, html, comparisons
hihtml (j9t)189
packages, npm, html, conformance, link-rot, minification, html-minifier, optimization, quality
“Use Links, Don’t Talk About Them” (mwi)188
writing, microcontent, usability
You Can Use Newline Characters in URLs (lem)187
urls, data-urls, html, attributes
When Is a Link Not a Link? (dec)186
html, semantics, accessibility
Underlining Links With CSS (stu)185
css
Barriers From Links With ARIA (aar)184
accessibility, html, aria
SEO (htt)183
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, seo, robotstxt, llmstxt, content, structured-data, amp, html, internationalization
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (Link Only) (dec)182
accessibility, testing, wcag, microcontent, link-lists
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (in Context) (dec)181
accessibility, wcag, testing, microcontent
Link vs. Button: Choosing the Right Element for the Right Job (tpg)180
html, buttons, accessibility, wcag, comparisons
Links and Anchors: Ancient HTML and JS Magic in Your Browser (cod/wea)179
html, css, javascript
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)178
ai, search, backlinks, metrics
Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links (joe)177
wordpress, theming, accessibility
A11y 101: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (in Context) (nat)176
introductions, accessibility, wcag, microcontent
Style Your Underlines (ada)175
css, interaction-design, accessibility
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s “href” You Might Not Have Known (jim)174
html, attributes, data-urls
Quick Tip: Use Fewer Links (nat)173
accessibility, tips-and-tricks
Design Tokens for Links172
design-tokens
Buttons vs. Links: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?171
videos, buttons, usability, comparisons
Overengineered Anchor Links170
effects, techniques
[“a:focus-visible”] (ada)169
css, focus
Chilled Out Text Underlines (chr/fro)168
css, colors
Build a Link Blog (xua)167
blogging
Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True (ahr)166
google, seo, metrics
Backlink-Free SEO: How to Rank Content Without Links165
how-tos, seo, content, backlinks
Cool URLs Don’t Change, Unless… (j9t)164
urls, link-rot, redirecting
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link (aar)163
html, screen-readers, accessibility
My Approach to Running a Link Blog (sim)162
blogging, content, writing, community
Buttons and Links161
accessibility, buttons, wcag
A Link on a Logo in the Header, What Should the Alt-Text Be? (ria/mat)160
accessibility, branding, logos, images, alt-text
A Button Is Not a Link (mor/mat)159
html, buttons
The “button” Element (hey)158
html, semantics, buttons
Why Does “target="_blank"” Have an Underscore in Front? (kyr)157
html, frames
Smarter Than “Ctrl” + “F”: Linking Directly to Web Page Content (ahm)156
urls
The Design of Visited Links (niq)155
design
Basic Keyboard Shortcut Support for Focused Links (eri)154
focus, support, browser-engines, keyboard-shortcuts, accessibility
Good Intentions, Poor Context (tpg)153
accessibility, microcontent, images, buttons
The Anchor Element (hey)152
html, semantics, terminology, usability
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Click151
information-scent, navigation, usability
How I Develop Successful Link Building Strategies for My Clients (moz)150
seo, strategies
Images as the First Thing in a Button or Link (tem)149
accessibility, html, images, buttons
In-Page Links: 3 Usability Tips (nng)148
videos, usability, tips-and-tricks
Arguments for Opening Links in a New Tab or Window (gri/clo)147
usability
Should Links Open in a New Tab? (stv)146
usability, user-experience
Basic Accessibility Mistakes I Often See in Audits (cfe)145
accessibility, mistakes, auditing, html, semantics, focus, buttons
Buttons and Links—Common Misconceptions144
accessibility, html, semantics, buttons
How to Make External Links Accessible (pop)143
how-tos, accessibility
Link Colors and the Rule of Tincture142
colors
Styling External Links With Attribute Selectors (mic)141
css, attributes, selectors
How to Promote Your Website: 12 Free Methods That Work (sem)140
how-tos, marketing, blogging, content, social-media, keywords, seo, sem
Don’t Use Fixed CSS “height” or “width” on Buttons, Links, or Any Other Text Containers (ash)139
css, accessibility, usability, buttons
In-Page Links for Content Navigation (nng)138
navigation, usability
Styling Links and Buttons (aar)137
buttons, css, usability
Adding a “Share to Mastodon” Link to Any Web Site (cod)136
social-media, mastodon, community, javascript
How to Earn High-Authority Links That Drive Rankings (moz)135
how-tos, seo
Visually Hidden Links With 0 Dimensions (mat)134
hiding, accessibility, focus, safari
50.1% Empty Links (mat)133
accessibility, html, semantics, seo
Buttons, Links, and Focus (tem)132
accessibility, semantics, buttons, focus
External Links: In or Out131
seo, accessibility, user-experience
Is It a Bad Idea to Use “target="_blank"” for Links in an Email?130
email, user-experience
If You Need a Link, Don’t Use a Button (tem)129
html, semantics, buttons, accessibility
A Beginner’s Guide to Link and Text Accessibility (pop)128
guides, accessibility, content
A Problem With Link Relationships (j9t)127
html, metadata, semantics, maintainability
The Shape-Shifting “a” Element (rus)126
html, semantics
When Going Somewhere Does a Thing: On Links and Buttons (kil)125
accessibility, html, buttons, semantics
How to Get All Sibling Elements of a Link or Button With Vanilla JavaScript (cfe)124
how-tos, buttons, javascript
Should I Use a Button or a Link? (ash)123
html, buttons, semantics
SEO Links Obfuscation and Accessibility Problems122
seo, obfuscation, accessibility
Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (tem)121
accessibility, wcag, images, icons, conformance
Level Up Your Link Previews in Slack (whi)120
html, social-media, open-graph, slack
How to Create Animated Anchor Links Using CSS (zor/css)119
videos, how-tos, css, animations
Should “Cancel” Be a Button or a Link?118
interaction-design, buttons, semantics
How Many Hyperlinks Are Too Many for Accessibility?117
accessibility
Revisiting Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (moz)116
design
How to Define Your Relationship to Sites You Link To (ste)115
how-tos, html, semantics, seo
CSS Can Help Improve Your HTML!? Buttons and Links114
html, css, buttons, accessibility
Designing Better Links for Websites and Emails: A Guideline (sma)113
design, email
The Problem With “Click Here” and “Learn More” Links112
usability, writing
11ty Slugs and Anchors (5t3)111
eleventy, urls
Buttons vs. Links (yat)110
html, semantics, buttons, comparisons
Links, Missing “href” Attributes, and Over-Engineered Code (tem)109
html, attributes, accessibility
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? (moz)108
design
Disabling a Link (sco)107
css, accessibility
Why Skip-Links Are Important for Accessibility (dev)106
accessibility
Information Scent105
videos, usability, information-scent
Half of My CSS Are Links104
css
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover (kat/css)103
colors, animations, css, hover
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Go Next (nng)102
usability, information-scent
When to Open Links in a New Tab (j9t)101
user-experience
All About “mailto:” Links (chr/css)100
email
Nested Links (chr/css)99
html
Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide (myr+/sma)98
guides, seo
Hyperlinking Beyond the Web (ati/css)97
urls, command-line, tooling, electron, terminology
How to Disable Links (ger/css)96
how-tos, javascript
Homepage Links Remain a Necessity (nng)95
homepages, breadcrumbs, navigation, conventions, usability
And Now, a Brief Definition of the Web (bac/ver)94
web, web-platform, open-web
An Introduction to WordPress Permalinks93
introductions, wordpress, urls
How the 404 Error Created the World Wide Web92
history, web, http
The Performance Benefits of “rel=noopener” (jaf)91
html, performance, security
Using the “title” Attribute to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (nng)90
html, attributes, microcontent
The Ultimate Guide to Link Building With Content89
guides, content, seo
“Learn More” Links: You Can Do Better (nng)88
microcontent, usability
Let Links Be Links (ali)87
html, javascript, frameworks
A Link Is a Promise (nng)86
microcontent, writing
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start With Keyword (nng)85
microcontent, writing, usability
On Links and Accessibility (j9t)84
accessibility, usability
When to Use “target="_blank"” (chr/css)83
usability
A URL Policy for Web Projects (j9t)82
urls, conventions
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests81
backlinks, seo, search, google
Why Relative URLs Should Be Forbidden for Web Developers (joo/yoa)80
urls, seo
Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” (sma)79
microcontent, usability, seo
Favicons Next to External Links (chr/css)78
html, favicons, css, jquery
When (and When Not to) Use an Anchor Tag? (chr/css)77
html, semantics
Broken Links (tim)76
urls, javascript
A Guide to Designing Cool URLs (wir)75
guides, urls, namespaces
URL Design (kne)74
urls, best-practices, namespaces
The Definitive Guide to Styling Links With CSS (sma)73
guides, css
Natural Links Are Better Than Non-Natural72
seo
How Many Links per Page?71
seo
Remote Linking (chr/css)70
html, css
Paid Posts Should Not Affect Search Engines69
pagerank, seo
More Crimes Against Hypertext (ate)68
best-practices
Performance and RFC 2396 (j9t)67
performance
The Most Annoying Yet Most Important Task in Website Management (j9t)66
link-rot, maintenance, user-experience, quality, web
Free Links to Your Site65
backlinks, seo, google
Good Times With Inbound Links64
backlinks, seo
More Flexible Linking (mey)63
html
Optimize Your Links for Print Using CSS: Show the URL (dav)62
urls, css, print
Configuring Links in Screen Readers61
screen-readers, jaws, accessibility
A Non-Annoying “a:visited” Technique (chr/css)60
css
Is Selling Text Links Dangerous?59
monetization
Who Ordered the Link States? (mey)58
css, selectors
The One True Way to Open a Window in JavaScript57
javascript
Command Links (nng)56
navigation, buttons, usability
Hidden Links55
hiding, seo
Linkify: The Best Bookmarklet You’re Not Using54
bookmarklets
Discover Your Links53
google, search
Why You Should Be Using Disambiguated URLs (sim)52
urls, best-practices
A Quick Word About Googlebombs (mou)51
backlinks, seo, google
“nofollow” Still Considered Harmful (j9t)50
metadata, seo
Using CSS3 Selectors to Highlight Hyperlinks (pet)49
css, selectors
Signs of a Quality Link48
seo, quality
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated47
w3c, html, xhtml, conformance, link-rot, user-experience, tooling
SEO Advice: Linkbait and Linkbaiting46
seo, backlinks
Improving Link Display for Print (aar/ali)45
css, print
Open New Windows for PDF and Other Non-Web Documents (nng)44
usability, pdf
Usability Improvements Using the DOM (mis)43
usability, dom, javascript
The Two Fundamental Skills of Web Writing (ger)42
fundamentals, writing
Avoid Forcing Links to Open in a New Window41
usability
Basics of Search Engine Optimisation40
fundamentals, seo, content, microcontent, headings, urls
I Broke “nofollow” (bur)39
metadata, seo
“rel=nofollow” (sim)38
metadata, seo, google
Browsing Habits of Screen Reader Users37
screen-readers, accessibility, headings, html, writing
One-Way Links Were Key to Web (sdt)36
web
Opening New Browser Windows: A User-Centered Approach35
usability, pop-ups
Web Writing: How to Judge a Good Website From a Bad One (ger)34
how-tos, writing
Link Relationships (lac)33
html, metadata, semantics
Perma Your RSS! (jus)32
rss
Question Time: Visited Links31
colors, usability, link-lists
Should Visited Links Get Distinctive Styling?30
css, usability
Change the Color of Visited Links (nng)29
usability, colors
Opening Links in a New Window (gez)28
usability
Accessible Pop-Up Links (ali)27
pop-ups, accessibility
JavaScript Navigation—Cleaner, Not Meaner (cod)26
javascript, html
CSS Design: Custom Underlines (ali)25
css, effects
Accessibility Notes (dav)24
accessibility
Fun With Links (sim)23
selectors, css
Hyperlinks Matter (jud/inf)22
web, xml, rss, rest
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)21
usability, search
Adding Value to Your Links20
microcontent, images, urls
Cool URIs Don’t Change (tim/w3c)19
urls, link-rot, web
Fighting Linkrot (nng)18
link-rot, user-experience
Identifying Links With the Anchor Tag17
html
Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines (w3c)16
guidelines, accessibility, html, content, lists, tables, images, multimedia, design, frames, forms
Page Author Guidelines—Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines15
guidelines, accessibility, css, images, image-maps, javascript, multimedia, lists, tables, frames, forms, tips-and-tricks, best-practices
Page Author Check List—Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines14
checklists, accessibility, css, images, image-maps, javascript, multimedia, lists, tables, frames, forms, tips-and-tricks, best-practices
Using Link Titles to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (nng)13
usability
Hypertext Links in HTML (dck+/w3c)12
html, standards
Link and Image Checker (pre)11
tools, analysis, images, link-rot, user-experience
Link Checker (Dead Link Checker)10
tools, analysis, link-rot, user-experience
Link Checker (Dr. Link Check)9
tools, analysis, link-rot, user-experience
Link Checker (W3C) (w3c)8
tools, analysis, link-rot, user-experience
Backlinks Analyzer (Ahrefs) (ahr)7
tools, analysis, seo, backlinks
Backlinks Analyzer (seobility)6
tools, analysis, seo, backlinks
Backlinks Anchor Text Analyzer5
tools, analysis, seo, backlinks
Links and Content Analyzer4
tools, analysis, seo, content
XFN Link Generator3
tools, exploration, code-generation, html, metadata, microformats, xfn
Social Share Links Generator2
tools, exploration, sem, social-media
Backlinks Analyzer (NP Digital)1
tools, analysis, seo, backlinks