News!! How To Link Posts Together Inwards Blogger

This article shows how to link from a novel weblog post to 1 that you lot accept already written. It is utilisation of the Blogger-Basics series.

Sometimes, when you're writing a blog-post, you lot desire to refer to a post you lot wrote before.

• It way that you lot don't accept to repeat information, in addition to tin focus on writing it actually good inward simply 1 place.
• It encourages visitors to read to a greater extent than than 1 post, in addition 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 house inward their number lists)

For example, many of the posts hither on Facebook, Feedburner, AdSense) to function alongside Blogger:  in full general these posts depict how to kicking the bucket some HTML code from the "other" site, in addition to and therefore 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 brand this simpler the side past times side time, I simply wrote 1 post most installing third-party code into Blogger.

Follow these steps to link 2 posts together

1   Write the outset post (the 1 you lot desire to link to), in addition to publish it. (You cannot link to it until later you lot accept published it.)

2  Copy the URL / web-address of the outset post.
The URL volition start alongside https:// in addition to and therefore accept your blog's url in addition to the post information, similar this:

/search?q=putting-facebook-share-this-badge-on

You tin encounter the URL at the exceed of the browser inward the address bar, when you lot select to View the post from the listing of posts inward the Dashboaurd. Or you lot could correct click on the View link in addition to select "copy target".

iii  Edit the minute post, ie the 1 where you lot desire to seat the link.


iv  Find the text that you lot desire to seat the link on, in addition to select it.

• This is called the "anchor text", because you lot attach your link to it.
• It's best if you lot utilisation descriptive text similar "worn alongside a formal dress" rather than words similar "click here", because they assist visitors in addition to search engines know what the other article is about).

v  Click the Link icon inward the toolbar: it's the 1 alongside the give-and-take  "link" on it - or inward older versions of the Blogger software, it had a pictures that looked similar a chain.   It also shows the give-and-take "link" if you lot hover the mouse over it.

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

seven  At this betoken you lot tin also select whether clicking on the link shows the other post in the same window, or inward a novel one, using the "open inward a novel window" checkbox.
(Some people cry upwards it would hold upwards skilful to ever opened upwards linked posts inward a novel window - but it tin hold upwards real annoying for a user if they terminate upwards alongside a lot of opened upwards windows. Personally, I unremarkably brand links to my ain site opened upwards inward the same window, in addition to links to other sites opened upwards inward a novel window.)


8  Click ok

What your readers volition see

When mortal reads the post that you lot seat the link into, they volition encounter your post inward the normal way. The anchor-text (ie the linking-words that you lot chose) volition hold upwards formatted inward the same way that other links inward your weblog are formatted.

This is truthful for readers who are looking at your weblog through a web-browser, in addition to for ones who subscribe to your weblog past times email or who read it inward a feed-reader.

When they click on the link, it volition hold upwards opened inward the way that you lot said - either inward the same browser or inward a novel window.

Linking to or from other things?

re-edit your outset post, in addition to seat a link to the minute 1 inward it - inward precisely the same way every bit described above. (If you lot await at some to a greater extent than posts, you lot volition encounter that I utilisation lots of an lots of links to all sorts of posts.)

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

Or you lot mightiness desire to link to an electronic mail address, therefore that people tin easily ship you lot a message.

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