There are a number of reasons, actually, and I think attributing them to "some designers" is a bit on the flawed side.
"Click here" resolves to Adobe as the most popular search result in Google, btw: http://www.google.com/search?q=click here&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS311US311 But, back on topic. The problem that this causes, ultimately, is a rather bad SEO problem. Good, descriptive links help keep that link "juice" internal to your site, as opposed to say, throwing more at Adobe's Reader (or today's #3 "clickhere.com"). The other issue, however, is that often content is the last thing to be considered in a website--and I think we've all been there. So, a designer, who perhaps doesn't have much context for the content and is using a lot of FPO copy, does something fairly logical by labeling the calls to action on the page with "click here to...". When copywriting comes around, it's often not written by folks who have written for the web and text link calls to action get little or not consideration. Your experience, of course, may vary. --Russ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44472 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
