Comments on: Use “Click Here” to Increase Click Rates

By: Betshopboy.net » The Week In Review (07/10 - 13/10)

Betshopboy.net » The Week In Review (07/10 - 13/10) — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:30:56 +0000

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By: MindMap Linking Weekend: 13 October, 2007 by Internet Marketing Mind

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:10:42 +0000

[...] back to basics, Susan provides some enlightening insights to CTRs with text links. Sometimes the most obvious “Click Here”’s can do wonders to improve those [...]

By: Ognjen

Ognjen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:30:38 +0000

Very good advice. I’m going to consider it in the future.

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By: Nick Bakewell

Nick Bakewell — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:47:49 +0000

I read about this on Copyblogger a while ago and the results surprised me. It’s good, however, because that is what I have always used. It does make sense if you really think about it – giving your reader an explicit instruction.

By: WarriorBlog

WarriorBlog — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:29:38 +0000

If you are writing an article and want the backlink for a certain keyword instead of hyperlinking the word “Click here” – you can do it like this:

” Click here:(Your URL or hyperlink text).”

That also work nicely if you write article.

By: Justin (pusha)

Justin (pusha) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:07:08 +0000

Good advice. I’m going to try it for my posts soon and see how it works.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:02:13 +0000

That’s a pretty interesting result, although it will vary in different niche’s. It’s nice to experiment with it and see what the results are on my own sites.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:14:10 +0000

Deron – I totally agree with you. It does depend on the user group and probably the frequency it’s used…the more it’s used, the more spammy it looks :)

By: simon

simon — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:21:37 +0000

i started using pictures and i figured out they never worked well

By: Deron Sizemore

Deron Sizemore — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:16:22 +0000

I think it all depends on your readers. If you have a tech type site where it’s mostly people in the tech industry, “click here” won’t work. I think it just looks a spammy and most tech people are to smart to just click aimlessly.

If your readers are less tech savvy people, then yes, I definitely agree that “click here” will work. In my experience in tech support and watching over people’s shoulders while they work on the computer and I troubleshoot, non tech savvy users will click anything. It doesn’t matter if it’s an email, on the web, etc. If it says “click here” or is blinking or anything else that draws attention, majority of non tech savvy users will be there in a heart beat to click and see what it’s all about.

That’s the majority from what I’ve seen. There is the other side though, the non tech savvy people that are so scared to click on anything because they think the second they click on something a virus will eat their computer right in front of them and spit it out on the floor. It’s either one extreme or the other.