Good post, but it would be more convincing with data. At this point, it seems like the blog post is based on your intuition. None of us have great intuition as to what 90% of web users are doing.
I agree, there are a lot of things here that come off as just opinion or speculation but doesn't give any reasons for why that hold up to firm scrutiny. An example:
* Doing so diminishes their experience of your interface because it momentarily takes their focus away from it. Instead of focusing on the interface and its content, “click here” diverts their attention to the user and their mouse. Not to mention, you can also make them feel dumb by suggesting that they don’t know what a link is or how to use a mouse.*
Based on what? At this point in time, very few people think about the actual action of moving a mouse and clicking a link, they just do it. It is now an innate action
however
you have to keep your audience in mind here. That second paragraph about making your audience seem dumb? Well what about the group of people who almost never use a computer, the elderly or those who are just not around machines as often? They might read a linked word and think it's something completely different. Telling them to click here engages in the mind "There is more relevant information on the next page".
* Doing so diminishes their experience of your interface because it momentarily takes their focus away from it. Instead of focusing on the interface and its content, “click here” diverts their attention to the user and their mouse. Not to mention, you can also make them feel dumb by suggesting that they don’t know what a link is or how to use a mouse.*
Based on what? At this point in time, very few people think about the actual action of moving a mouse and clicking a link, they just do it. It is now an innate action
however
you have to keep your audience in mind here. That second paragraph about making your audience seem dumb? Well what about the group of people who almost never use a computer, the elderly or those who are just not around machines as often? They might read a linked word and think it's something completely different. Telling them to click here engages in the mind "There is more relevant information on the next page".