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

Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
hihtml (j9t)179
packages, npm, html, conformance, link-rot, minification, html-minifier, optimization, quality
“Use Links, Don’t Talk About Them” (mwi)178
writing, microcontent, usability
You Can Use Newline Characters in URLs (lem)177
urls, data-urls, html, attributes
When Is a Link Not a Link? (dec)176
html, semantics, accessibility
Underlining Links With CSS (stu)175
css
Barriers From Links With ARIA (aar)174
accessibility, html, aria
SEO (htt)173
web-almanac, studies, research, metrics, seo, robotstxt, llmstxt, content, structured-data, amp, html, internationalization
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (Link Only) (dec)172
accessibility, testing, wcag, microcontent, link-lists
Testing Methods: Link Purpose (in Context) (dec)171
accessibility, wcag, testing, microcontent
Link vs. Button: Choosing the Right Element for the Right Job (tpg)170
html, buttons, accessibility, wcag, comparisons
Links and Anchors: Ancient HTML and JS Magic in Your Browser (cod/wea)169
html, css, javascript
Do Backlinks Still Matter in AI Search? Insights From 1,000 Domains (sem)168
ai, search, backlinks, metrics
Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links (joe)167
wordpress, theming, accessibility
A11y 101: 2.4.4 Link Purpose (in Context) (nat)166
introductions, accessibility, wcag, microcontent
Style Your Underlines (ada)165
css, interaction-design, accessibility
A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s “href” You Might Not Have Known (jim)164
html, attributes, data-urls
Quick Tip: Use Fewer Links (nat)163
accessibility, tips-and-tricks
Design Tokens for Links162
design-tokens
Buttons vs. Links: What’s the Difference and Why Does It Matter?161
videos, buttons, usability, comparisons
Overengineered Anchor Links160
effects, techniques
[“a:focus-visible”] (ada)159
css, focus
Chilled Out Text Underlines (chr/fro)158
css, colors
Build a Link Blog (xua)157
blogging
Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs to See if It’s True (ahr)156
google, seo, metrics
Backlink-Free SEO: How to Rank Content Without Links155
how-tos, seo, content, backlinks
Cool URLs Don’t Change, Unless… (j9t)154
urls, link-rot, redirecting
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link (aar)153
html, screen-readers, accessibility
My Approach to Running a Link Blog (sim)152
blogging, content, writing, community
Buttons and Links151
accessibility, buttons, wcag
A Link on a Logo in the Header, What Should the Alt-Text Be? (ria/mat)150
accessibility, branding, logos, images, alt-text
A Button Is Not a Link (mor/mat)149
html, buttons
The “button” Element (hey)148
html, semantics, buttons
Why Does “target="_blank"” Have an Underscore in Front? (kyr)147
html, frames
Smarter Than “Ctrl” + “F”: Linking Directly to Web Page Content (ahm)146
urls
The Design of Visited Links (niq)145
design
Basic Keyboard Shortcut Support for Focused Links (eri)144
focus, support, browser-engines, keyboard-shortcuts, accessibility
Good Intentions, Poor Context (tpg)143
accessibility, microcontent, images, buttons
The Anchor Element (hey)142
html, semantics, terminology, usability
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Click141
information-scent, navigation, usability
How I Develop Successful Link Building Strategies for My Clients (moz)140
seo, strategies
Images as the First Thing in a Button or Link (tem)139
accessibility, html, images, buttons
In-Page Links: 3 Usability Tips (nng)138
videos, usability, tips-and-tricks
Arguments for Opening Links in a New Tab or Window (gri/clo)137
usability
Should Links Open in a New Tab? (stv)136
usability, user-experience
Basic Accessibility Mistakes I Often See in Audits (cfe)135
accessibility, mistakes, auditing, html, semantics, focus, buttons
Buttons and Links—Common Misconceptions134
accessibility, html, semantics, buttons
How to Make External Links Accessible (pop)133
how-tos, accessibility
Link Colors and the Rule of Tincture132
colors
Styling External Links With Attribute Selectors (mic)131
css, attributes, selectors
How to Promote Your Website: 12 Free Methods That Work (sem)130
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)129
css, accessibility, usability, buttons
In-Page Links for Content Navigation (nng)128
navigation, usability
Styling Links and Buttons (aar)127
buttons, css, usability
Adding a “Share to Mastodon” Link to Any Web Site (cod)126
social-media, mastodon, community, javascript
How to Earn High-Authority Links That Drive Rankings (moz)125
how-tos, seo
Visually Hidden Links With 0 Dimensions (mat)124
hiding, accessibility, focus, apple, safari
50.1% Empty Links (mat)123
accessibility, html, semantics, seo
Buttons, Links, and Focus (tem)122
accessibility, semantics, buttons, focus
External Links: In or Out121
seo, accessibility, user-experience
Is It a Bad Idea to Use “target="_blank"” for Links in an Email?120
email, user-experience
If You Need a Link, Don’t Use a Button (tem)119
html, semantics, buttons, accessibility
A Beginner’s Guide to Link and Text Accessibility (pop)118
guides, accessibility, content
A Problem With Link Relationships (j9t)117
html, metadata, semantics, maintainability
The Shape-Shifting “a” Element (rus)116
html, semantics
When Going Somewhere Does a Thing: On Links and Buttons (kil)115
accessibility, html, buttons, semantics
How to Get All Sibling Elements of a Link or Button With Vanilla JavaScript (cfe)114
how-tos, buttons, javascript
Should I Use a Button or a Link? (ash)113
html, buttons, semantics
SEO Links Obfuscation and Accessibility Problems112
seo, obfuscation, accessibility
Icon-Only Links Fail WCAG (tem)111
accessibility, wcag, images, icons, conformance
Level Up Your Link Previews in Slack (whi)110
html, social-media, open-graph, slack
How to Create Animated Anchor Links Using CSS (zor/css)109
videos, how-tos, css, animations
Should “Cancel” Be a Button or a Link?108
interaction-design, buttons, semantics
How Many Hyperlinks Are Too Many for Accessibility?107
accessibility
Revisiting Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (moz)106
design
How to Define Your Relationship to Sites You Link To (ste)105
how-tos, html, semantics, seo
CSS Can Help Improve Your HTML!? Buttons and Links104
html, css, buttons, accessibility
Designing Better Links for Websites and Emails: A Guideline (sma)103
design, email
The Problem With “Click Here” and “Learn More” Links102
usability, writing
11ty Slugs and Anchors (5t3)101
eleventy, urls
Buttons vs. Links (yat)100
html, semantics, buttons, comparisons
Links, Missing “href” Attributes, and Over-Engineered Code (tem)99
html, attributes, accessibility
Why Are Hyperlinks Blue? (moz)98
design
Disabling a Link (sco)97
css, accessibility
Why Skip-Links Are Important for Accessibility (dev)96
accessibility
Information Scent95
videos, usability, information-scent
Half of My CSS Are Links94
css
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover (kat/css)93
colors, animations, css, hover
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Go Next (nng)92
usability, information-scent
When to Open Links in a New Tab (j9t)91
user-experience
All About “mailto:” Links (chr/css)90
email
Nested Links (chr/css)89
html
Linkbuilding: The Citizen’s Field Guide (myr+/sma)88
guides, seo
Hyperlinking Beyond the Web (ati/css)87
urls, command-line, tooling, electron, terminology
How to Disable Links (ger/css)86
how-tos, javascript
Homepage Links Remain a Necessity (nng)85
homepages, breadcrumbs, navigation, conventions, usability
And Now, a Brief Definition of the Web (bac/ver)84
web, web-platform, open-web
An Introduction to WordPress Permalinks83
introductions, wordpress, urls
How the 404 Error Created the World Wide Web82
history, web, http
The Performance Benefits of “rel=noopener” (jaf)81
html, performance, security
Using the “title” Attribute to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (nng)80
html, attributes, microcontent
The Ultimate Guide to Link Building With Content79
guides, content, seo
“Learn More” Links: You Can Do Better (nng)78
microcontent, usability
Let Links Be Links (ali)77
html, javascript, frameworks
A Link Is a Promise (nng)76
microcontent, writing
Writing Hyperlinks: Salient, Descriptive, Start With Keyword (nng)75
microcontent, writing, usability
On Links and Accessibility (j9t)74
accessibility, usability
When to Use “target="_blank"” (chr/css)73
usability
A URL Policy for Web Projects (j9t)72
urls, conventions
Backlinks and Reconsideration Requests71
backlinks, seo, search, google
Why Relative URLs Should Be Forbidden for Web Developers (joo/yoa)70
urls, seo
Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” (sma)69
microcontent, usability, seo
Favicons Next to External Links (chr/css)68
html, favicons, css, jquery
When (and When Not to) Use an Anchor Tag? (chr/css)67
html, semantics
Broken Links (tim)66
urls, javascript
A Guide to Designing Cool URLs (wir)65
guides, urls, namespaces
URL Design (kne)64
urls, best-practices, namespaces
The Definitive Guide to Styling Links With CSS (sma)63
guides, css
Natural Links Are Better Than Non-Natural62
seo
How Many Links per Page?61
seo
Remote Linking (chr/css)60
html, css
Paid Posts Should Not Affect Search Engines59
pagerank, google, seo
More Crimes Against Hypertext (ate)58
best-practices
Performance and RFC 2396 (j9t)57
performance
The Most Annoying Yet Most Important Task in Website Management (j9t)56
link-rot, maintenance, user-experience, quality, web
Free Links to Your Site55
backlinks, seo, google
Good Times With Inbound Links54
backlinks, seo
More Flexible Linking (mey)53
html
Optimize Your Links for Print Using CSS: Show the URL (dav)52
urls, css, print
Configuring Links in Screen Readers51
screen-readers, jaws, accessibility
A Non-Annoying “a:visited” Technique (chr/css)50
css
Is Selling Text Links Dangerous?49
monetization
Who Ordered the Link States? (mey)48
css, selectors
The One True Way to Open a Window in JavaScript47
javascript
Command Links (nng)46
navigation, buttons, usability
Hidden Links45
hiding, seo
Linkify: The Best Bookmarklet You’re Not Using44
bookmarklets
Discover Your Links43
google, search
Why You Should Be Using Disambiguated URLs (sim)42
urls, best-practices
A Quick Word About Googlebombs (mou)41
backlinks, seo, google
“nofollow” Still Considered Harmful (j9t)40
metadata, seo
Using CSS3 Selectors to Highlight Hyperlinks (pet)39
css, selectors
Signs of a Quality Link38
seo, quality
W3C Markup Validator, Link Checker Updated37
w3c, html, xhtml, conformance, link-rot, user-experience, tooling
SEO Advice: Linkbait and Linkbaiting36
seo, backlinks
Improving Link Display for Print (aar/ali)35
css, print
Open New Windows for PDF and Other Non-Web Documents (nng)34
usability, pdf
Usability Improvements Using the DOM (mis)33
usability, dom, javascript
I Broke “nofollow” (bur)32
metadata, seo
“rel=nofollow” (sim)31
metadata, seo, google
One-Way Links Were Key to Web (sdt)30
web
Link Relationships (lac)29
html, metadata, semantics
Perma Your RSS! (jus)28
syndication, rss
Opening Links in a New Window27
usability
Accessible Pop-Up Links (ali)26
pop-ups, accessibility
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, syndication, 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