Why oh WHY do I have to try to find my way BACK to the First Article I was reading? (notice how there’s no target=”_blank” in those links?)Īnd THEN what happens if you find a THIRD Article from Second Article, and then a Fourth Article from Third, etc.
…thus closing the entire Forbes post because the writer didn’t denote in the code that the link should open in a new tab: I found a link to a Twitter profile I wanted to follow, so I clicked on the link to head to Twitter, clicked “Follow” and then closed the tab… This all happened the other day when I was reading a Forbes article. So by closing the tab - I thought I was just closing Second Article - I really closed the First Article. Nope, it opened Second Article right in the SAME tab. Why?īecause the link I clicked on in First Article didn’t open up a new browser tab, as it should’ve. When I finish Second Article I wander up to the browser tab in which it’s open and I close it…only to find myself - YET AGAIN, you’d think I’d learn - with no way “back” to First Article. But I haven’t finished reading the First Article yet, so of course I want to get back to it after I read this Second Article. I see a link to another website with related content I want to read I click said link. Here’s my point (and the scenario): I’m reading an article. Now, if you want to tell the link to open in a new tab, you’d use the following code: Link Text Goes Hereīut what’s all this have to do with anything, you ask? Does this ever happen to you? That code says, Open this link in the current tab. AKA, Why didn’t this link open in a new tab? See, there are different behind-the-scenes ways to open a link.īasic code is as follows: Link Text Goes Here And still to this day there’s one thing that gets me every time. To that end I just assume things on the web will work a certain way. I know enough about code to be dangerous, but ask anyone - especially my husband - and they’ll tell you the technical aspect of online marketing is NOT my strong suit. Although I’ve learned a LOT through the years, I’m definitely not a techie person. I started out not knowing much about SEO (didn’t we all get our start that way?) and now here I am. Now, here I sit in my mid-thirties (* gulp*) wondering where in hell the time has gone (and still a smart aleck).Īnyway, so I’ve been involved in online marketing for a fair amount of time. “They” all told me when I was in high school, “ time flies ever more quickly the older you get.” Of course I scoffed at that - like any smart-aleck 18-year-old, I KNEW I knew better.
The other solution is, we could describe the way how to get to the requested site with words in the chat and just not provide a direct link.īut I am writing this in the hope that someone would know how to make sure that either all links will stay in the same tab when clicked or (even better) just the links from our own domain will stay in the same tab when clicked.2015 marks my 10th year in the search marketing realm.
But that will annoy quite a few visitors. We could tell our visitors every time we provide a link that they need to copy the URL and paste it manually into their browser URL line to make sure they stay in the same tab. Hence we need to find a different solution.
But that will trigger an error message from our system (multiple tabs detected!). When we provide links in the chat and the visitor clicks on the link it is LiveChat’s standard behaviour to open said links in a new tab. Maybe someone here has an idea how to fix this. Our visitors must not be able to open our site in more than one tab in their browsers for example. We are working in a very specific market and have to follow some strange regulations.