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3:25 am February 6, 2013
| Club Thrifty
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Hey everybody,
How do you guys create your links? I have been creating links in new windows for links going off of our site but keeping links on our site in the same window. Is there a right or wrong way to do this? I am just curious. Any thoughts would be helpful.
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4:05 am February 6, 2013
| FrugalRules
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I have been doing it the same way, so I'd be interested to know myself.
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6:51 am February 6, 2013
| MoneyBeagle
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I usually have everything open new, but maybe that's annoying my readers for links on my own site?
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8:03 am February 6, 2013
| sooverthis
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I have everything external open in a new tab, but stuff on my site opens in the same one.
As a reader, I right click everything and open in a new tab so I can keep reading whatever I'm reading.
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8:12 am February 6, 2013
| Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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I have everything open in a new window. I'm sure it was just frustrate my readers to click on a link in the first paragraph, have the article replace the one they are currently reading, then have to hit the back button and open it by right clicking. It's just easier for them if it opens in a new window. They can always close the current one if they are done…but I want them to have the option.
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8:26 am February 6, 2013
| Edward Antrobus
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Post edited 11:45 am – February 6, 2013 by Edward Antrobus
As a reader, I I tend to open things in new tabs, but I want that choice. If I'm done reading your site and just want to click away, having a whole new window open up is annoying. I'll be less likely to visit that site again in the future.
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9:49 am February 6, 2013
| The College Investor
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I depends on the link -
1. Past references to old articles get opened in new window.
2. Calls to Action (i.e. what I really want the reader to do) get the same window.
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12:46 pm February 6, 2013
| WellKeptWallet
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I tend to have everything open in a new window because I like the fact that if they close the window they are still on my site and may continue to browse around. However, I like what the College Investor said and will have to think about implementing that strategy.
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2:49 pm February 6, 2013
| Money Counselor
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If the link is external, I open a new window. Don't want to make it any easier than it already is for a visitor to leave me! But if the link is internal, I'll only open a new window if the link appears in, say, the first two-thirds of the post. If the link's nearer the end of the post, I figure the reader's attention span's about shot by then anyway and they want something new, so no new window.
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3:45 pm February 6, 2013
| First Million is the Hardest
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As a reader I hate when I click a link and it opens in the same window, taking me away from the site I was on. In my mind it should be standard practice to have everything open in a new tab.
As a writer I have everything open in a new window/tab because I don't want to encourage or make it any easier for that reader to leave my site!
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8:24 pm February 6, 2013
| Jen @ Master the Art of Saving
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As a reader, I always right click and open links in a new window because I hate losing my place.
So when I started Master the Art of Saving 2+ years ago, I made every single link open in a new window. Big, huge mistake.
The last few weeks, I spent 43 hours going through 500+ posts and all my pages to fix it. Never again will I make that mistake.
Now, all internal links open in the same window and external links open in a new window. Now readers can browse my site without 20 windows pissing them off.
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5:02 am February 7, 2013
| MoneyBeagle
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Post edited 5:03 am – February 7, 2013 by MoneyBeagle
Jen, what led you to determine that it was a 'big, huge mistake'? Did you get feedback from readers?
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6:03 am February 7, 2013
| TightFistedMiser
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I think some people are confusing windows with tabs. You can have multiple tabs in a window.
I always right click on links so they open in a new tab. If the site has right click disabled, then control+click opens the link in a new tab.
I never want a link to open in a new window.
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6:31 am February 7, 2013
| Hank Coleman
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I usually have everything that is going outside of my blog open in a new new window. Everything that is internal goes right to it in the same tab.
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7:12 pm February 7, 2013
| Jen @ Master the Art of Saving
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MoneyBeagle said:
Jen, what led you to determine that it was a 'big, huge mistake'? Did you get feedback from readers?
Actually it was an advertiser that pointed it out, just as an observation. Then when I stepped back and attempted to use my site as a reader, not the blogger…I saw the error of my ways. I would hate to visit a blog that took my choice away and opened a billion windows and slowed things down for me.
Not to mention that it took 43 hours to fix, imagine if I would have continued that for another couple of years.
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12:55 pm February 8, 2013
| Pauline
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I have most links open to a new window as well but am considering leaving the internal one on the same window. As a reader I right click and open a new tab to stay on the post I am reading
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