Welcome Home. Click Here

No wait, click here to visit my homepage. Wait! Don't leave now, this is bound to be an excellent article on clicking and optimizing.

Where do I click?

Ever been to a website and seen a giant link list with nothing but the words "Click Here"? Does it not confuse the hell out of you?

Imagine this

You're blind (or visually disabled), but you're savvy with the web. You've become familiar with your favorite screen reader and have learned a few navigation tips along the way. You've realised that a simple way to jump around a webpage is to hop from link to link to gather detailed information that hopefully fulfills your idea of what any given webpage is about. Then you run into a page that looks like this: Begin Excerpt: Welcome! If you're a curious mongrol looking to fulfil your fettish on woman web developers click here. Or if you've been missing your daddy and haven't seen him for years, click here. Maybe this website can help you become a better graphic designer. Don't want to become a graphic designer? Then this guy will help you put together a sweet development resource site. Maybe you're just bored. Why not just click this damn link, it's bound to pleasure you some how. End Excerpt In case you missed the point, here is what your screen reader is going to yelling back at you:

Click Here. Click Here.This website. This Guy. Click this damn link

Clearly the message is getting sent to the user ;)

Better Page Titles

Welcome to my Website. Looking for some great tips on how to write better headline titles? Look no further than getting descriptive on your filenames. If it's your home page, use no other than index.html. If your website is is in frames, why not give them logical names like "Frame A" and "Frame B" - or why not master frame? Surely that will entail all your site encompasses. Looking to be the top for anything in particular. Be vague, general, and indirect. You'll win over visitors looking to spend 'almost' two seconds on your website.

Better headline writing

Sorry, anyone who thinks headline writing is important is a big dork.

Use the freaking <font> tags

You need presentational markup! Afterall, it's what it looks like that matters. (Damn there goes my xhtml strict markup). Ok, funny story (true story). I heard someone say that the larger number in the font 'size' attribute, the better search optimization you'll receive.

Now it's your turn

This concludes todays entry for the first day on the 12days series. If you didn't catch the sarcasm, this entry was on the topic of Search Engine Optimization. Todays question for the contest: What is the five worst SEO tips you've ever heard?