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		mitchdoogle 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001) Put something better. "Visit our site", "View Results", "Download File", "Next Page". Almost anything is better than "Click here". "Click here" is the result of laziness - think about what the button does for a couple minutes and you should be able to come up with better text

danlitt 8 months ago [–]

Note that all of these would fail the criteria in TFA - either as verb phrases, or not clearly describing the link target.

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