We take links for granted these days, but the truth of the matter is that the humble link revolutionized documents and made the Web as we know it today possible. Being able to link a reader directly to another document or to another place within a document was not possible before.

For this reason, you can say that hyperlinks are the backbone of the Internet—without them, search engines wouldn't be possible, nor would most websites. Let's take a look at some of the ways we can make links work even harder for us.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: