Many Webmasters and bloggers think that in order not to lose visitors, they should make links open in new windows. Others are of the opinion that it is a bad practice as it will discourage visitors from visiting your site again. So I did a sort of a poll (using comments) to find out if people are put off by sites having links open in new windows. See
Poll - does making links open in new windows piss you off? (click back button to get back to this page). The majority of those who responded says no. However, it may not be a representative sample as those who responded I assume are all bloggers themself, and may not represent the general population. Also, one said that he prefer links to open in new windows if they lead to other sites, and in the same window if it is on the same site.
After the result of the poll, I have decided to continue my practice of making links open in new windows, but add a comment after the link (close new window to get back to this page), and when I make a link to the same site, add a comment (click back button to get back to this page).
I hope that will help, and also prevent confusion such as visitors having got used to links opening in new windows closing the window when they click a link leading to the same site (which open in the same window).
I hope very much you will leave your comments on what you think of this practice. It will be good for you to know too, as that can influence you on what practice to follow by knowing what other thinks.
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