When you mention something, link to it!
I noticed that in the past days I commented this suggestion on several blogs:
A little suggestion to help your readers navigate more easily: When you mention a blog (or "something"), make it a link pointing there!
Example:
Instead of : In my last blog I wrote about how you can use XD01 in S/4HANA
try: In my last blog I wrote about how you can use XD01 in S/4HANA
Way better, isn't it? I think it's especially helpful as
1. People still struggle with navigation ( I do!)
2. The feature "incoming links" we had in SCN isn't there anymore.
Or do you see any reason not to connect content with links? (Happy to learn!)
best
Joachim
22 Comments
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Dec 12, 2016 at 10:54 AM
I'm pretty old but I remember this kind of behaviour was under the nice name of "Netiquette" in the past days, when internet was a green field and the air clean ;)
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Dec 12, 2016 at 12:07 PM
[...] "do you see any reason not to connect content with links?"
Not really. Especially if you already talk about that content in your blog. Old platform or new, if you help people findung the content your talking about, the faster they are back to the current read instead of searching for the other stuff.
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Dec 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM
In the old SCN when you paste URL the page name was automatically inserted as a link text. Unfortunately now this useful feature was lost...
Sample:
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/12/01/how-to-get-epm-protection-password/
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Dec 12, 2016 at 12:52 PM
I think there is already an idea in the Idea place for that to bring it back. But that also means the author has to paste the url. The same can be achieved now with a click more and manually adding the title, but the core is, that some people don't add urls at all.
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:11 PM
Sorry, but it's not a "click more"
In old SCN:
1. Copy URL from browser line (automatically selected)
2. Select tab with answer
3. Paste in answer textNow:
1. Select page name on the page with blog
2. Copy
3. Select tab with answer
4. Press Link button
5. Paste page name
6. Return to the tab with blog
7. Copy URL from browser line (automatically selected)
8. Return to answer tab
9. Paste URL
10. Press Insert button
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:19 PM
Hi Vadim,
Though, I preferred the old editor, but the situation with URLs under new editor is not that critical. What I do is:
a) Type the text I want to use as a link
b) Copy URL I need
c) Select the text I typed, go to
icon and insert URL.Overall, not so bad... Nevertheless, once more, I agree that the old editor handled it better.
Regards,
Eli
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:25 PM
"Type the text I want to use as a link" - I want to avoid typing in most cases :)
In general in my answers I provide links to my blogs very often, I decide to paste raw URL!
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:49 PM
You can make it like this: 'Please, check this blog'. ...and inserting blog's URL under word 'blog'. I just wonder, if search engine is looking on URLs...
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Dec 12, 2016 at 05:33 PM
I also end up just pasting URLs a lot. The fact that I have to chose between "Insert Link" and "Remove Link" when there is no link is starting to grind my gears. And after I pasted the URL my hands are already on the keyboard, so why waste precious SCN time quota?
In some cases I might just mention "there was a blog about this" when I'm too lazy to search for it. But for an author talking about your own old post and not linking make no sense. Why miss a legitimate opportunity to pimp your own content?
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:36 PM
That's what I usuall do, too.
And the fact that you now can freely choose which titel you give to your link (instead of allways having it convert to the blog titel automatically) could even be viewed as improvement...
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Dec 12, 2016 at 01:59 PM
In the old SCN the link text was also changeable... But I never used this option :)
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Dec 12, 2016 at 02:42 PM
I think there is already an idea in the Idea place
Haha, good catch - you made me search for that - and here's the probable link or whatever I like to call it...
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Dec 12, 2016 at 05:33 PM
Putting Joachim's request into action, right here! :)
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Dec 12, 2016 at 07:52 PM
As a side note - some links are pretty much invisible on SCN these days. For example, can you see a link in this post? (Double points if you are a Gen-Xer or older.)
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Dec 12, 2016 at 08:04 PM
Unread link looks better :)
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Dec 13, 2016 at 12:51 AM
Some links are pretty much invisible sometimes in some of the browsers, tested by the SCN team.
Luckily, the visited link improvement does not affect Firefox users. ☺
It is unbelievable - I am still using charmap in an internet forum in 2016. -
Dec 13, 2016 at 08:32 AM
Yes, it's a question read/unread... 'Read' links are almost indistinguishable from the rest of the text :(
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Dec 13, 2016 at 09:54 AM
Another shade of grey. Maybe they are going for the 50?
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Dec 13, 2016 at 10:05 AM
I prefer Histoire d'O :p
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Dec 14, 2016 at 07:47 AM
Oh, the link in the screenshot - yes, I can see that.
But 1st thing I just did was moving my mouse over every single letter in "As a side note - some links are pretty much invisible on SCN these days. For example, can you see a link in this post? (Double points if you are a Gen-Xer or older.)", indeed not finding any link... :-|
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Former MemberDec 14, 2016 at 08:12 AMI went a step further. I extracted the html content behind the text to see if there is an href tag. No link found :-)
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