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News!! How To Link Posts Together Inwards Blogger

This article shows how to link from a new weblog post to 1 that yous lot receive got already written. It is utilisation of the Blogger-Basics series.


Sometimes, when you're writing a blog-post, yous lot wishing to refer to a post yous lot wrote before.
  • It agency that yous lot don't receive got to repeat information, inward add-on to tin focus on writing it genuinely skillful inward only 1 place.
  • It encourages visitors to read to a greater extent than than 1 post, inward add-on to doesn't bore people who already know the related information..
  • It's skilful for SEO (encouraging search-engines to laissez passer your weblog a skilful family inward their issue lists)

For example, many of the posts hither on Facebook, Feedburner, AdSense) to purpose amongst Blogger:  in amount full general these posts depict how to kicking the bucket some HTML code from the "other" site, inward add-on to in addition to thence how to install it into your blog. Originally, I repeated the "how to install" instructions inward every post - but when Blogger changed how this was done, this meant I had to update dozens of posts.  To construct this simpler the side yesteryear times side time, I only wrote 1 post most installing third-party code into Blogger.


Follow these steps to link ii posts together

1   Write the start post (the 1 yous lot wishing to link to), inward add-on to publish it. (You cannot link to it until afterward yous lot receive got published it.)

ii  Copy the URL / web-address of the start post.
The URL testament start amongst https:// inward add-on to in addition to thence receive got your blog's url inward add-on to the post information, like this:
/search?q=putting-facebook-share-this-badge-on
You tin run across the URL at the top of the browser inward the address bar, when yous lot select to View the post from the listing of posts inward the Dashboaurd. Or yous lot could right click on the View link inward add-on to select "copy target".




iii  Edit the infinitesimal post, ie the 1 where yous lot wishing to topographic point the link.


iv  Find the text that yous lot wishing to topographic point the link on, inward add-on to select it.
  • This is called the "anchor text", because yous lot attach your link to it.
  • It's best if yous lot utilisation descriptive text like "worn amongst a formal dress" rather than words like "click here", because they help visitors inward add-on to search engines know what the other article is about).

v  Click the Link icon inward the toolbar: it's the 1 amongst the discussion  "link" on it - or inward older versions of the Blogger software, it had a pictures that looked like a chain.   It also shows the discussion "link" if yous lot hover the mouse over it.



half-dozen  In the window that opens, paste the address of the other post into the Web-address field.



7  At this hollo for yous lot tin also select whether clicking on the link shows the other post in the same window, or inward a new one, using the "open inward a new window" checkbox.
(Some people yell upwards it would agree upwards skilful to e'er opened upwards linked posts inward a new window - but it tin agree upwards existent annoying for a user if they cease upwards amongst a lot of opened upwards windows. Personally, I usually construct links to my receive site opened upwards inward the same window, inward add-on to links to other sites opened upwards inward a new window.)


8  Click ok



What your readers testament see

When somebody reads the post that yous lot topographic point the link into, they testament run across your post inward the normal way. The anchor-text (ie the linking-words that yous lot chose) testament agree upwards formatted inward the same agency that other links inward your weblog are formatted.

This is true for readers who are looking at your weblog through a web-browser, inward add-on to for ones who subscribe to your weblog yesteryear times email or who read it inward a feed-reader.

When they click on the link, it testament agree upwards opened inward the agency that yous lot said - either inward the same browser or inward a new window.


Linking to or from other things?

re-edit your start post, inward add-on to topographic point a link to the infinitesimal 1 inward it - inward just the same agency every flake described above. (If yous lot await at some to a greater extent than posts, yous lot testament run across that I utilisation lots of an lots of links to all sorts of posts.)

Or yous lot could put the link onto a picture instead of onto text.

Or yous lot mightiness wishing to link to an electronic post service address, thence that people tin easily send yous lot a message.




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