It’s the little things…like hyperlinks
As I was scrolling through my feed reader today I saw that one of the blogs I follow has moved to a new domain. They reminded me to update my RSS. Now, when a site moves, I generally like to visit the new site a) to check out the new digs and b) to see if I still want to subscribe to their RSS feed. Such was the case today. So I click over to the current site.
Now call me lazy, but they’re trying to get me to visit their new site. They’re trying to get my to update my feed reader with the new RSS feed. But neither of these links is hyperlinked!
Lesson here: don’t make your visitors have to work to find you. No, copying and pasting isn’t going to kill them, but how hard is it to include a hyper link? With people short on time, make it easy. With virtually every blog client out there making it ridiculously easy to include a hyper link (not to mention that the html to include a hyper link is what, 10 extra characters?) there’s no excuse not to.
If you need help learning how to hyperlink things within your blog, contact me.