Edublogs Help and Support » Insert/Edit Link http://help.edublogs.org Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:10:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to insert links in your post http://help.edublogs.org/2009/07/29/how-to-insert-links-in-your-post/ http://help.edublogs.org/2009/07/29/how-to-insert-links-in-your-post/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:10:49 +0000 Sue Waters http://help.edublogs.org/?p=226 Linking to articles, websites or other blogger’s post when you write about them is an important part of blogging.

Your readers want to be able to easy check out the information without needing to Google. Failure to link is a common mistake of all new bloggers!

It’s good blogging etiquette to link to:

  1. A person’s blog if you mention a blogger
  2. The post if you are talking about a particular post on a blog
  3. Website or article if mentioned in your post

Video

Watch the video below to insert links

How To Create A Link

1.  Copy the URL of the website you want to link to.


2.   In the post that you are writing highlight the text you want linked to the website and click on Insert/Edit Link button.

3.  Paste the URL into URL box and then click Add Link.

4.  When you view your blog you should now see the text is now linked in your blog post.

]]> http://help.edublogs.org/2009/07/29/how-to-insert-links-in-your-post/feed/ 0 How To Link To Other Bloggers Posts http://help.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/how-to-link-to-other-bloggers-posts/ http://help.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/how-to-link-to-other-bloggers-posts/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:58:03 +0000 Sue Waters http://help.edublogs.org/?p=26 Reading blog posts that talks about other bloggers’ posts but doesn’t include links to them is really frustrating for readers. Why? Because readers like to follow the links and check out the information in more detail but without the links they can’t!

All you have to do is:

  1. Copy the URL of the post you want to link to.
  2. In the post that you are writing highlight the text you want linked to the post, click on Insert/Edit Link button, paste the post URL and then click INSERT.

It’s good blogging etiquette to link to:

  1. A person’s blog if you mention a blogger
  2. The post if you are talking about a particular post on a blog

See also: What is a Pingback?

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