How to Add Hyperlinks to Blog Posts

Have you ever written a beautiful article or blog post and wondered how to create a hyperlink directly in the body of the post?  I’ll show how to do that today and it’s really not that hard to do.  I must warn you, we will be learning a little html in the process – but don’t worry I promise it won’t hurt a bit.

In my example today I’m going assume we are working from a post written in WordPress.  Whether its wordpress or a straight html page… the code is the same.

So from our blog post edit screen, we need to click on the html tab.  This will will allow us to embed html directly into our article.

The html tag we will work with is called the anchor tag (or “a” tag).  The finished code for a plain anchor tag looks something like this:

<a href=”http://www.www.joesinternetmarketing.com”>My Awesome Website</a>

And the result looks like this:

 My Awesome Website

In the html code itself we can break it down and see that it’s not too difficult to understand. So lets dig in to it

First off,  html code is always surrounded by angle brakets – < and >.  The first letter “a” after the first angle bracket tells the browser its an anchor tag (also known as an “a” tag).

The next part is “href”.  This stands for “host reference” – basically saying where are we going to link to.  This is then followed by a closing angle bracket.

Then we add our text we want to highlight for the anchor which in this case is “My Website”.  FInally, we close the entire thing with the closing “a” tag -</a>

And that’s it!

So right about now you maybe thinking… GEEZE!  What a hassle.  And your right sometimes writing this out for every link you want to embed is a hassle. Especially if you have a lot of affiliate products you may want to link to in your article.

To make things easier, I’ve had my eye on a product that automatically will add links for me based on certain keywords that are in my articles or blogs.  Its a WordPress plugin called Ninja Affiliate.   It has been a bit pricey though, at $97 and was just too hard to swallow.

Well, MaxBlog Press, makers of Ninja Affiliate just reduced the price of Ninja Affiliate! They’ve knocked off $30 bucks from the price and its now only $67 dollars!.  I have been watching this product for a while and it has never gone on sale.  So needless to say I bought it yesterday.

I have to say I’m glad I did, its an awesome WordPress plugin that has already begun to pay for itself. Its you have a chance check out the sales page and read about it. It will save you time and possibly make you some money!!

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