Sunday, May 23, 2010

Tips on Hyperlinks

Sometimes hyperlinks are very useful in blog posts, articles, and content you publish anywhere online. A hyperlink can be used in the body of a paragraph to link pages and sites that are related to your subject. To create a hyperlink you use a standard html tag that allows you to link displayed text words to a hidden web address. ( For instructions on how to use the hyperlink code in several different ways here's a good cheat sheet: http://www.hyperlinkcode.com/make-hyperlink.php )

If I did a hyperlink for this blog, what will then actually show in the text will be Freelance Writing Fun, and when a person clicks on it they would wind up on this page.

In your own blogs and websites, using hyperlinks can help your visitors find relevant information that you'd like them to see. In forums and other places you socialize on line, using these kinds of links appropriately can lead interested people back to your personal playgrounds. However, be careful when adding hyper links to the body of your articles if you are submitting to online publishers that share your content in other ways. Check the guidelines to see what you can and can't use in your work, and where in your articles adding links is permitted.

Be aware that some services are set up to hack the links you add in the body and replace them with the links the site prefers. If you aren't careful, you could wind up adding a link to "Toledo Zoo", and having your link to the official zoo page be replaced with a link changed to activate on  the word "Toledo" and pointing to some other site related to businesses in Toledo.

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