How-to: encourage the read to click on links

We communicate to our readers in documentations, responses, and also comments. Today's communication tools allows us to include links easily in many ways.

This sentence includes a link within itself, but does not stop you from reading the entire message.

I find such links useful when the linked article is supplementary to your message.

In situations where I want to direct the reader to click on the link explicitly, I find it best to simply show them raw below:https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkMyths.html

Personally, I find that showing the link raw (as-is) at the end helps:

1. draw attention, especially if the main point is about the linked article
2. to allow readers to inspect the link URL, which can help in credibility too

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