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Subject:  "Click Here" works - the proof
Author:   WilliamCharlwood:   view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites
Date:   10:00:37 7 October 2004
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12% of readers of this thread have clicked my "click here" link according to my site stats. Of course, I could increase this figure dramatically if I incentivised the click with a phrase like "Click here to find out how to get paid by Google while you sleep."

This I suspect is where there is a more serious clash with styles: an explanatory click is like a feature. Links that get the clicks include a benefit statement.

Here are 2 options:

learn more about AdSense (feature style link that helps with accessibility)

learn how to get paid by Google while you sleep (benefit style link that doesn't help accessibility so much)

I know which one I'd rather use on a direct response site. On a pure info site I'd probably choose the former.

 
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