Naming Your Buttons - Part 2

This is a follow-up article to my last post. Let’s look at a few of the other buttons that we can name other than the usual labels.

An example might be the “Mortgage Calculator.” We could call this tool “How Much Can You Afford,” or “Payment Calculator,” or “Estimate Payments” and the like.

Another example could be your “Sold Listings.” Also name this section “Sales History,” or “My Sold Listings,” or “Recent Sales,” or “Sales Track Record,” etc.

What else? Let’s look at “Home Search.” This could also be called “Property Search,” Search For Homes,” “Homes (Listings) For Sale,” (Your Town’s) Property Search,” and on…and on…

Even your “Home Page” could be referred to as your “Welcome” page or “Entry Page,” etc.

The possibilities are endless. One good thing to keep in mind, is that a button’s name should reflect what the content is going to be on the click-through page. Also, good search engine etiquette would also dictate that you should use a keyword (phrase) whenever possible in the name of a link…which would apply here, since these are actually html links.

Use your imagination. Button ordering sequence…and naming of them…is so easy to do.