Valuable Information About Linking – Also Called Hyper Link
There are several places you’ll discover (sometimes quite by accident) that allow you to use HTML code to embed a text link even if you’re not specifically told to do so.
On most blogs and shared sites that allow you to post content you’ll have some type of HTML editor (now commonly referred to as WYSIWYG {what you see is what you get}) and a handy chain link that allows you to open a pop up window once you’ve highlighted the word or words you’d like to link to somewhere else.
As you begin to understand more about the different sites you either share content with (and do some experimenting) or have accounts on, you’ll see the advantage in using the actual HTML code that makes a text link work. After all the WYSIWYG or visual editor does nothing more than generate this code without you having to know it or do it manually.
Basic Yet Powerful
Linking is important for SEO and for direct traffic generation and this is what it looks like:
<A HREF=”http://www.freeonlinehomebusinesstraining.com”>training</a>
Here’s an example of how it works in a sentence:
We’ve found an excellent training resource for home business owners.
In that sentence I made the lettering blue, bold and italicized but you can’t click it to go anywhere. When I replace the word ‘training’ with <A HREF=”http://www.freeonlinehomebusinesstraining.com”>training</a> in an HTML setting (this is where knowing your environment is important) the sentence reads the same in plain text but now when you click on the word it takes you to this sites home page.
By adding one more tag (target=”_blank”) within the <A… </a> you can keep this page open while opening a second browser window. To do this the string becomes:
<A target=”_blank” HREF=”http://www.freeonlinehomebusinesstraining.com”>training</a>
We’ve found an excellent training resource for home business owners.
Where and When
Once again you need to know where text links are allowed so as not to lose an account.
When you know that the site allows links look for their WYSIWYG feature. If you don’t find one then by all means apply this technique which is far superior than listing the entire URL of the sites you want people to visit.
If you have specific questions about places you’d like to use this we’d be more than happy to help you out. Just post your questions in the comments section. You’ll probably help someone else in the process.
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