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I had the exact same experience. I see this sort of issue commonly. Surprising companies don't just link you back to their homepage when they promote their prod
by macinjosh 10y ago
I had the exact same experience. I see this sort of issue commonly. Surprising companies don't just link you back to their homepage when they promote their product with a blog. Seems like an obvious thing to do.
- dorian-graph 10y agoIt's incredibly common to not have a link to their homepage—I have no idea why.
- geekamongus 10y agoSome SEO probably decided it was better not to have a blog link back to the home page, and that it was OK for user experience to be sacrificed.
- schnable 10y agoI think it's usually due to limitations/default settings of blog software, which is usually not tightly integrated with the corporate site.
- ryanSrich 10y agoIt's a medium blog. They don't allow you to add external links anywhere outside of a post. I suppose you could create a new post, add links in that post, and then add that link to the nav of the blog.
- wodenokoto 10y agoYes they do. There is a link to the download/purchase page in the header of the blog. And even if this was impossible, they could make their name in the body of the blog post a link to their website.
- ryanSrich 10y agoRight. I think it's limited to one external link (could be wrong). Makes sense they'd include the download link over the homepage link no?
- nebulous1 10y agoYou are correct: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/231510068-External-links-in-publication-navigation https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/231510068-External... Don't use medium for this purpose then, would be my answer. I also had an issue getting to the homepage. Obviously I managed to get there, but I almost didn't bother.
- mo17i 10y agoI've just experienced this issue today with Instagram, and I entered their support page, and there was nowhere to get to the homepage.