[thelist] advisability of links to the current page (WAS: <h1> + images + search engines penalties)

Sarah Adams mrsanders at designshift.com
Thu May 25 09:50:38 CDT 2006


> This makes sense to everybody and is as easily style-able
> 
> <ul>
> <li><a href="oranges.html">Oranges</a></li>
> <li><a href="apples.html">Apples</a></li>
> <li>Gherkins</li>
> <li><a href="bananas.html">Bananas</a></li>
> <li><a href="mushrooms.html">Pink Elephants</a></li>
> </ul>

You make some very good points. I'm convinced - not enough to go back 
and change all the sites in which I've used self-referential links, but 
I'll definitely be doing this in the future.

Thanks for the discussion - hopefully others will find useful, too.

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sarah adams
web developer & programmer
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