Opening Links: Same Window or New Window - Which Do YOU Prefer?
As you may have guessed, this article is in regards to linking and primarily which is the best *code* to use when doing so.
Should you have it open in the same window…effectively drawing people away from your site…or a new window…leaving the original one in tact for the reader to go back too.
This thought popped into my head while reading a post by Lynn Terry, entitled Stop Linking To Your Home Page!
This is all about internal or deep-linking as it’s called. The act of linking to pages within your blog from outside sources OR from within the blog itself, as I did here in the first sentence.
We will get a lot more into the workings of internal deep-linking in the days to come, as it is VERY important for SEO. For our purposes here though, we will stick to one specific aspect - Same window/New window, how do visitors prefer they open.
