Frazzled at being bombarded with link text reading “here” all day, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to list what some of the worst offenders are. If there were ever a lesson in using meaningful link text on the web, here it is.

According to Google, the top sites linked using the overly descriptive text “here” are:

  1. Adobe Acrobat (Download)
  2. Mapquest (Maps)
  3. Apple Quicktime (Download)
  4. Real Player (Download)
  5. Sun Java (Download)
  6. Windows Media Player (Download)
  7. Winzip (Download)
  8. Multimap (Maps)
  9. Google Earth (Download)
  10. Yahoo Maps

From this we can conclude that people primarily use the link text “here” to link software downloads, maps, or directions. The incredibly sad thing is the amount of proprietary software that is being “here linked”, that is very likely also “required to view this site”.

This article was posted on October 11, 2007, under Critique.

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  1. Tate

    October 11, 2007

    I only clicked this in my RSS reader because it said “Click here” :P

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