need tip on how to make link clickable after other criteria is met on page

  • Resolved jjacobson

    (@jjacobson)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    I need some ideas on how to make a text link clickable (hotlink) only after three other actions are taken on a page by the visitor, like the following:
    1. Clicks on a Twitter Follow button.
    2. Clicks on a Tweet button (tweets page content).
    3. Clicks on Facebook Fan Page Like Button.
    4. This step will be the text link. I want it to not be clickable until steps 1-3 are completed.

    Thanks for you help.

    Joe Jacobson

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I suppose you could do it with Javascript, encoding each link somehow, but … to what end? If this is on your front-end website, or on the backend of a plugin, it’s something that might drive people away.

    Thread Starter jjacobson

    (@jjacobson)

    That’s true about driving people away, but I’m thinking that clicking three buttons is no harder than a person giving their name and email address in order to receive something of high perceived value.

    Can you recommend any resources or people who might know how to accomplish this? Thanks.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It’s not harder, but there’s a perception of ‘Why should I pimp your product before I have it?’

    Anyway.

    I don’t think you CAN check that someone’s done those things. Not reliably. I mean, you can use JavaScript to validate forms and, by extension, make an invisible checkbox checked when a button is clicked:

    https://www.w3schools.com/jS/js_form_validation.asp

    But. Just because I click a ‘follow’ link doesn’t mean I’m actually going to go through with it. Ditto a FaceBook like (I may right away unlike). And what if I don’t use either Twitter or FaceBook?

    Honestly, this is something I wouldn’t recommend doing. Name and email, sure. That’s expected. But asking people to promote your product? Either they will or they won’t, but requiring it is a poor business strategy.

    Thread Starter jjacobson

    (@jjacobson)

    Okay, thanks for your feedback. I had seen some big guru internet marketers do this. But I get your points and I tend to agree with you. I’ll keep thinking it over.

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