Inserting links in posts is relatively easy because your Visual Editor provides a Insert/Edit Link button but this tool isn’t available for writing comments on posts. This is where a basic knowledge of HTML helps because you use HTML to write links in comments.

Here is an example of a comment that has use HTML to create a link:

What is HTML?

HTML is short for “Hyper Text Markup Language” which is a language used to tell a browser how to organise the layout of a web page it has downloaded from the Internet. It influences if text is bold, italics, a heading, bullet points.

When you write a post or page inside your blog dashboard you don’t worry HTML because the Visual Editor does it for you. If you click on the HTML tab it shows the HTML code in your text.

Here Is the HTML you use to write links:

<a href=”http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/”>check out The Edublogger</a>

produces

Check out The Edublogger

Make sure you close the tag with </a> and enclosed the website URL with quotation marks (needs to look like this “http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/”)

Please note:

• If you write several links in a blog comment it may be held in moderation for the blogger to approve – this is done to minimise people writing spam comments
• While Edublogs blogs allow you to use HTML for links in comments there are some blog platforms that don’t allow HTML

When they publish their post you’ll normally receive an email notification letting you know they have referenced ( i.e. linked to) your post.

The email notification commonly includes an extract from the post they’ve written, a link to their post, a link to the post you had written and a link for deleting or spamming the pingback.

Clicking on the link to their post means you can:

1. Check out what they’ve written
2. Leave a comment on their post (if you choose)
3. Decide whether you want to approve, delete or spam the pingback. Mostly you approve all pingbacks unless it obviously been written by a spam blog (these you delete or spam).

Once you’ve approved the pingback it’s displayed in the comments on your post with just the extract of post showing enclosed in brackets like these [...]. This is so other readers can follow the link and read the post on the other persons blog if they are interested.

Below is what a pingback might look like in the comments of a post.

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

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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.

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?