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    I am making some adjustments to my website and I'm a little confused on this matter.

    If my link in an internal one to another page on my site, should it be in a new window or not? Could anyone explain which is better to do?

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    For an internal page I would keep it in the same tab(if possible).
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    Same Site - Same Tab.

    If your linking to a third party, then I would open it in a new tab.

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    Same tab. It doesn't really matter but for the sake of not annoying your visitors I'd keep it all on the same tab. (yeah, apart from third party ^^)

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    The main reason for opening a link as a new/separate page is so that you don't loose track of where you are and to keep visitors on your site, and not loose them to another site, but still want to show info on the other site.

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    Same window will do if you're linking to the same site. However, always make sure that if it's a third party site, then you have to use the <target_blank> code so you won't loose track of your visitors.
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    Georgias,

    If your link takes a viewer to another page within your site, just keep everything in the same tab. If it leads to an external site, I use Javascript to open a new window, set its size, etc. This way the user won't lose your website because they'll be right back on it once they close the popup window.

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    I'll concur and say "same tab for internal pages, new tab for external pages."
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    For most cases you don't want to open links in a new window if they're going to stay on the same website/domain.
    You specify a link to open in a new window ideally if that link is on another website/domain.

    So if you have sitea.com/page1.html and want to link to sitea.com/page2.html don't use open in new window, no need to.
    but if from sitea.com/page1.html to siteanother.com/andpage.html then yes!

    Always also think about your visitor, is it useful for him to have the link opened in a new window or not?
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