I am amused by the click here style of links, since they are clearly BadDesign™ but they persist. Sure you expect to find them on pre-2000 webpages, ebay listings and the like, but even high-profile professional sites fall into the seductive click here trap.

Check this out from the Globe and Mail this morning:

Of course, a much better way of adding a link (assuming you want people to click on it) is to remove the mini-tutorial about how you need to click on links and put the verb first. This makes it a shorter, more compelling call to action. For example:

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I just created a Click Here! tag. I’m going to post the best offenders that I run across.