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Why are page titles on some websites clickable URLs?

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Why on sites like Stack Overflow, Techcrunch, Smashing Magazine, etc. are the page titles (i.e. the text at the top of the page) clickable URLs that redirect to the same page that the user is on?

Some examples:

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I believe that this does not effect SEO as search engines ignore internal links.

Is it for usability purposes?

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Techboy Avatar asked May 24 '09 18:05

Techboy


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It allows you to right-click on it and choose Copy link location (or equivalent) so that you can easily paste it in an email for example. This requires less time than copying it from the location bar, and some people run their browser without a visible location bar to save previous screen space.

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Samuel Tardieu Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 13:09

Samuel Tardieu