Making Links

We continue this lesson on the author's resource box with a look at making links. This is the one piece of basic HTML you need to know for making a good resource box at the end of each article. You generally can't submit your article directly from your page-builder software, so you need to know how to make a link - at least for those directories that take HTML.

Some automatically convert anything starting with "http://" into a link - just be sure to put the full address and leave a space after it for safety, like this: http://www.999articles.com . Notice the space before the period? If the period is next to the last letter of the URL it may become part of it, and then the link won't work.

Here is a resource box with a basic link in HTML:

Copyright Steve Gillman. For many more ways to boost your IQ, and to subscribe to the free <A HREF="http://www.increasebrainpower.com">Brainpower Newsletter</A>, visit http://www.IncreaseBrainpower.com .

This will display like this:

Copyright Steve Gillman. For many more ways to boost your IQ, and to subscribe to the free Brainpower Newsletter, visit http://www.IncreaseBrainpower.com .

The words "Brainpower Newsletter" link to http://www.increasebrainpower.com.

Notice that when I show the URL (not linked), I capitalize the words in it to make it easier to read and remember. This isn't necessary in the html code (which isn't seen), and it cannot be used in an extension or page name, because it will not properly link if used that way. In other words;

http://www.everywaytomakemoney.com/money-articles.html

cannot be written:

http://www.everywaytomakemoney.com/Money-Articles.html

Only the letters before the forward slash can be capitalized without a problem.

Here is an even simpler example of the html code for a link:

<A HREF="x">y</A>

The URL you put in place of the x is where the link will point to or link to - the page the reader will arrive at when they click on the link. It has to start with http:// of course. Whatever you put in place of the y is what the link will say. Again, these can be the same in some cases, if you use the full URL address as the anchor text in the link.

Continues here... Strategic Linking Strategies

Note: This is part of the book, You Can Make Money Writing. There are links to all the all the lessons/chapters on the home page.

Writing Tips
Sell E-Books
Writing for Money
Writing an Article
Get Paid to Blog
How to Write Articles
Article Writing Software
How to Write Articles

Helpful Tip

Want to learn more html on your own,? Then check out the code of existing pages. Look up at the top of your browser while on any web page. See where it says "view"? Open that and click on "view" or "view source" or something similar (Not all systems have the same labels).

You'll see the source code for the page. You can learn a lot from this. Pick out parts of the page to see how they are coded. For example, you can see how to highlight a word or phrase. You might even find some new ways of making links. You can look at the source code of pages all over the internet, but some use complicated code, which may be tough to decipher.