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“links” News Archive

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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
The Accessibility Issue Affecting 96% of University Websites217
accessibility, microcontent
An Ode to Links (jim)216
web, microcontent
Why “rel="noopener"” Is Obsolete for Links215
html, privacy, security
A Button That Links to a Random Post in HTML and CSS Only (chr/fro)214
buttons, randomness, css
The Difference Between a Button and a Link213
buttons, html, comparisons
hihtml (j9t)212
packages, npm, html, conformance, link-rot, minification, html-minifier, optimization, quality
“Use Links, Don’t Talk About Them” (mwi)211
writing, microcontent, usability
You Can Use Newline Characters in URLs (lem)210
urls, data-urls, html, attributes
When Is a Link Not a Link? (dec)209
html, semantics, accessibility
Underlining Links With CSS (stu)208
css
Barriers From Links With ARIA (aar)207
accessibility, html, aria
SEO (htt)206
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, seo, robotstxt, llmstxt, content, structured-data, amp, html, internationalization
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (Link Only) (dec)205
accessibility, testing, wcag, microcontent, link-lists
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (in Context) (dec)204
accessibility, wcag, testing, microcontent
Link vs. Button: Choosing the Right Element for the Right Job (tpg)203
html, buttons, accessibility, wcag, comparisons
Links and Anchors: Ancient HTML and JS Magic in Your Browser (cod/wea)202
html, css, javascript
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)201
ai, search, backlinks, metrics
Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links (joe)200
wordpress, theming, accessibility
A11y 101: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (in Context) (nat)199
introductions, accessibility, wcag, microcontent
Style Your Underlines198
css, interaction-design, accessibility
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s “href” You Might Not Have Known (jim)197
html, attributes, data-urls
Quick Tip: Use Fewer Links (nat)196
accessibility, tips-and-tricks
Design Tokens for Links195
design-tokens
Buttons vs. Links: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?194
videos, buttons, usability, comparisons
Overengineered Anchor Links193
effects, techniques
[“a:focus-visible”]192
css, focus
Chilled Out Text Underlines (chr/fro)191
css, colors
Build a Link Blog (xua)190
blogging
Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True (ahr)189
google, seo, metrics
Backlink-Free SEO: How to Rank Content Without Links188
how-tos, seo, content, backlinks
Cool URLs Don’t Change, Unless… (j9t)187
urls, link-rot, redirecting
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link (aar)186
html, screen-readers, accessibility
My Approach to Running a Link Blog (sim)185
blogging, content, writing, community
Buttons and Links184
accessibility, buttons, wcag
A Link on a Logo in the Header, What Should the Alt-Text Be? (ria/mat)183
accessibility, branding, logos, images, alt-text
A Button Is Not a Link (mor/mat)182
html, buttons
The “button” Element (hey)181
html, semantics, buttons
Why Does “target="_blank"” Have an Underscore in Front? (kyr)180
html, frames
Smarter Than “Ctrl” + “F”: Linking Directly to Web Page Content (ahm)179
urls
The Design of Visited Links (niq)178
design
Basic Keyboard Shortcut Support for Focused Links (eri)177
focus, support, browser-engines, keyboard-shortcuts, accessibility
Good Intentions, Poor Context (tpg)176
accessibility, microcontent, images, buttons
The Anchor Element (hey)175
html, semantics, terminology, usability
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Click174
information-scent, navigation, usability
How I Develop Successful Link Building Strategies for My Clients (moz)173
seo, strategies
“target=_blank” Implies “rel=noopener” (ste)172
html, attributes, security
Images as the First Thing in a Button or Link (tem)171
accessibility, html, images, buttons
In-Page Links: 3 Usability Tips (nng)170
videos, usability, tips-and-tricks
Arguments for Opening Links in a New Tab or Window (gri/clo)169
usability
Should Links Open in a New Tab? (stv)168
usability, user-experience
Basic Accessibility Mistakes I Often See in Audits (cfe)167
accessibility, mistakes, auditing, html, semantics, focus, buttons
Buttons and Links—Common Misconceptions166
accessibility, html, semantics, buttons
How to Make External Links Accessible (pop)165
how-tos, accessibility
Link Colors and the Rule of Tincture164
colors
Styling External Links With Attribute Selectors (mic)163
css, attributes, selectors
How to Promote Your Website: 12 Free Methods That Work (sem)162
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)161
css, accessibility, usability, buttons
In-Page Links for Content Navigation (nng)160
navigation, usability
Styling Links and Buttons (aar)159
buttons, css, usability
Adding a “Share to Mastodon” Link to Any Web Site (cod)158
social-media, mastodon, community, javascript
How to Earn High-Authority Links That Drive Rankings (moz)157
how-tos, seo
Visually Hidden Links With 0 Dimensions (mat)156
hiding, accessibility, focus, safari
50.1% Empty Links (mat)155
accessibility, html, semantics, seo
Buttons, Links, and Focus (tem)154
accessibility, semantics, buttons, focus
External Links: In or Out153
seo, accessibility, user-experience
Is It a Bad Idea to Use “target="_blank"” for Links in an Email?152
email, user-experience
If You Need a Link, Don’t Use a Button (tem)151
html, semantics, buttons, accessibility
A Beginner’s Guide to Link and Text Accessibility (pop)150
guides, accessibility, content
A Problem With Link Relationships (j9t)149
html, metadata, semantics, maintainability
The Shape-Shifting “a” Element (rus)148
html, semantics
When Going Somewhere Does a Thing: On Links and Buttons (kil)147
accessibility, html, buttons, semantics
How to Get All Sibling Elements of a Link or Button With Vanilla JavaScript (cfe)146
how-tos, buttons, javascript
Should I Use a Button or a Link? (ash)145
html, buttons, semantics
SEO Links Obfuscation and Accessibility Problems144
seo, obfuscation, accessibility
Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (tem)143
accessibility, wcag, images, icons, conformance
Level Up Your Link Previews in Slack (whi)142
html, social-media, open-graph, slack
How to Create Animated Anchor Links Using CSS (zor/css)141
videos, how-tos, css, animations
Should “Cancel” Be a Button or a Link?140
interaction-design, buttons, semantics
How Many Hyperlinks Are Too Many for Accessibility?139
accessibility
Revisiting Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (moz)138
design
How to Define Your Relationship to Sites You Link To (ste)137
how-tos, html, semantics, seo
CSS Can Help Improve Your HTML!? Buttons and Links136
html, css, buttons, accessibility
Designing Better Links for Websites and Emails: A Guideline (sma)135
design, email
The Problem With “Click Here” and “Learn More” Links134
usability, writing
11ty Slugs and Anchors (5t3)133
eleventy, urls
Buttons vs. Links (yat)132
html, semantics, buttons, comparisons
Links, Missing “href” Attributes, and Over-Engineered Code (tem)131
html, attributes, accessibility
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? (moz)130
design
Disabling a Link (sco)129
css, accessibility
Why Skip-Links Are Important for Accessibility (dev)128
accessibility
Information Scent127
videos, usability, information-scent
Half of My CSS Are Links126
css
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover (kat/css)125
colors, animations, css, hover
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Go Next (nng)124
usability, information-scent
When to Open Links in a New Tab (j9t)123
user-experience
All About “mailto:” Links (chr/css)122
email
Nested Links (chr/css)121
html
Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide (myr+/sma)120
guides, seo
Hyperlinking Beyond the Web (ati/css)119
urls, command-line, tooling, electron, terminology
How to Disable Links (ger/css)118
how-tos, javascript
Homepage Links Remain a Necessity (nng)117
homepages, breadcrumbs, navigation, conventions, usability
And Now, a Brief Definition of the Web (bac/ver)116
web, web-platform, open-web
An Introduction to WordPress Permalinks115
introductions, wordpress, urls
How the 404 Error Created the World Wide Web114
history, web, http
The Performance Benefits of “rel=noopener” (jaf)113
html, performance, security
Using the “title” Attribute to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (nng)112
html, attributes, microcontent
About “rel=noopener” (mat)111
html, attributes, security
The Ultimate Guide to Link Building With Content110
guides, content, seo
“Learn More” Links: You Can Do Better (nng)109
microcontent, usability
Let Links Be Links (ali)108
html, javascript, frameworks
A Link Is a Promise (nng)107
microcontent, writing
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start With Keyword (nng)106
microcontent, writing, usability
On Links and Accessibility (j9t)105
accessibility, usability
When to Use “target="_blank"” (chr/css)104
usability
A URL Policy for Web Projects (j9t)103
urls, conventions
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests102
backlinks, seo, search, google
Why Relative URLs Should Be Forbidden for Web Developers (joo/yoa)101
urls, seo
Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” (sma)100
microcontent, usability, seo
Favicons Next to External Links (chr/css)99
html, favicons, css, jquery
When (and When Not to) Use an Anchor Tag? (chr/css)98
html, semantics
Broken Links (tim)97
urls, javascript
A Guide to Designing Cool URLs (wir)96
guides, urls, namespaces
URL Design (kne)95
urls, best-practices, namespaces
The Definitive Guide to Styling Links With CSS (sma)94
guides, css
Natural Links Are Better Than Non-Natural93
seo
How Many Links per Page?92
seo
Remote Linking (chr/css)91
html, css
Paid Posts Should Not Affect Search Engines90
pagerank, seo
More Crimes Against Hypertext (ate)89
best-practices
Performance and RFC 2396 (j9t)88
performance
The Most Annoying Yet Most Important Task in Website Management (j9t)87
link-rot, maintenance, user-experience, quality, web
Free Links to Your Site86
backlinks, seo, google
Good Times With Inbound Links85
backlinks, seo
More Flexible Linking (mey)84
html
Optimize Your Links for Print Using CSS: Show the URL (dav)83
urls, css, print
Configuring Links in Screen Readers82
screen-readers, jaws, accessibility
Empty Links and Screen Readers81
screen-readers, accessibility, jaws, window-eyes
Usability of Pagination Links80
pagination, usability
The Collaborative Web (ger)79
web, collaboration
Back to the Future of Print (24w)78
css, print, link-lists
Future-Proof Your Web Site Design by Planning Your CSS in Advance77
design, css, headings, lists, tables, images, forms, javascript
A Non-Annoying “a:visited” Technique (chr/css)76
css
Is Selling Text Links Dangerous?75
monetization
Who Ordered the Link States? (mey)74
css, selectors
Ordering the Link States (mey)73
css, selectors
The One True Way to Open a Window in JavaScript72
javascript
Command Links (nng)71
navigation, buttons, usability
Hidden Links70
hiding, seo
Linkify: The Best Bookmarklet You’re Not Using69
bookmarklets
Don’t “Click Here”—Avoid Verbs?68
microcontent, writing
Links Are the Grammar of the Web (ger)67
Link Hide-and-Seek66
design, usability
The Truth About SEO65
seo, content
Discover Your Links64
google, search
Why You Should Be Using Disambiguated URLs (sim)63
urls, best-practices
The Importance of Link Highlighting62
usability, accessibility
Don’t Be the Weakest Link (boa)61
usability, accessibility
A Quick Word About Googlebombs (mou)60
backlinks, seo, google
“nofollow” Still Considered Harmful (j9t)59
metadata, seo
Using CSS3 Selectors to Highlight Hyperlinks (pet)58
css, selectors
Signs of a Quality Link57
seo, quality
“Click Here” and Other Meaningless Link Phrases56
microcontent, usability, accessibility
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated55
w3c, html, xhtml, conformance, link-rot, user-experience, tooling
Making Flash Websites Searchable54
flash, html, search
Identifying Text-Only Nodes With CSS53
css, selectors
Eight Problems That Haven’t Changed52
usability, buttons, pop-ups, monetization, content
Real Hackers Don’t Use CSS (emi)51
images, image-maps, standards, design
Maximum Number of Hyperlinks on a Page50
usability
Alphabetized Links Are Random Links (jms)49
sorting, randomness, usability
SEO Advice: Linkbait and Linkbaiting48
seo, backlinks
Simple, Accessible External Links (rus)47
accessibility
Improving Link Display for Print (aar/ali)46
css, print
Open New Windows for PDF and Other Non-Web Documents (nng)45
usability, pdf
Usability Improvements Using the DOM (mis)44
usability, dom, javascript
The Two Fundamental Skills of Web Writing (ger)43
fundamentals, writing
Avoid Forcing Links to Open in a New Window42
usability
Basics of Search Engine Optimisation41
fundamentals, seo, content, microcontent, headings, urls
I Broke “nofollow” (bur)40
metadata, seo
“rel=nofollow” (sim)39
metadata, seo, google
Browsing Habits of Screen Reader Users38
screen-readers, accessibility, headings, html, writing
One-Way Links Were Key to Web (sdt)37
web
Opening New Browser Windows: A User-Centered Approach36
usability, pop-ups
Web Writing: How to Judge a Good Website From a Bad One (ger)35
how-tos, writing
Link Relationships (lac)34
html, metadata, semantics
Perma Your RSS! (jus)33
rss
Question Time: Visited Links32
colors, usability, link-lists
Should Visited Links Get Distinctive Styling?31
css, usability
Change the Color of Visited Links (nng)30
usability, colors
Opening Links in a New Window (gez)29
usability
Accessible Pop-Up Links (ali)28
pop-ups, accessibility
JavaScript Navigation—Cleaner, Not Meaner (cod)27
javascript, html
CSS Design: Custom Underlines (ali)26
css, effects
Accessibility Notes (dav)25
accessibility
Fun With Links (sim)24
selectors, css
Hyperlinks Matter (jud/inf)23
web, xml, rss, rest
Deep Linking Is Good Linking (nng)22
usability, search
Notes on Suggesting Link Styles (dba)21
css, hover, browsers
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