Tuesday 31 December 2013

Blogger Post Linking

Linking is what joins the world wide web family together. All the disparate undertakings, done in all sections of the internet are united by way of linking. If you came into this place, Bloggerdemmy  from search, then you
came through a link,a link from here catalogued by google and displayed to you on request. Still if you came in through my efforts at social network panels, that is also impossible without linking. What i dropped in there that you clicked before you now get redirected here is link to this post.You can as well call linking a bridge, a complicated network or whatever, but as far as i know, the fact of linking remains atop every form of content webbing known yet to man

Technically, their are three types of links

1. External link
2.Internal link
3. Local links

while external linking connects one website to another, the internal and local links interact within a giving blog/site page.

But i shall deal with this under a pair, blogger and external linking.

                                                Linking

When linking, two different posts are needed, one is the post in which you are living/dropping the link while the other is the post whose link is been dropped.(anchor text,they call it) An example of a link is:

                             Swap Blogger post to another label

You could click on the above phrase now and be led to the post in this blog bearing that title. How did i do this?
Let's see how:

<a href="http://bloggerdemmy.blogspot.com/2013/12/swap-blogger-post-to-another-label.html">Swap Blogger post to another label</a>

Time To Explain 

<a> = open/start/begin tag

href = hypertext reference called attribute. Attributes are often preceded by =" that's equals and quotation marks and then followed by the address href attribute is referring to

http://bloggerdemmy.blogspot.com/2013/12/swap-blogger-post-to-another-label.htm= this is the address you are linking to(href is referring to),using the above example, this address belongs to ' Swap Blogger Post to Another Label''

Swap Blogger post to another label= This is what you want visitors to see and click on in order  to be redirected to the post you referred to (which has the address above). I used the name of the post,but you are free to use any thing you want 

</a>= this is the end tag,meaning that you are through with the linking and now ''End''


Linking has two HTML tags known simply as elements. In HTML linking    <a> tag is known as the start/begin tag while </a> tag is known as the end tag. So it's the combination of just <a> the link address</a> that gave that link up there.

1. <a ......means begin 2. href .....is a HTML attribute that depends of the start tag(<a> to function and without it you cant link an address. href means hypertext reference which simply means the site/page you want to refer to/link to. That's why it's said, href="the address of the page you want to link to"> start tag is done,but you have not closed it with the end tag. Now what follows after <a href="the address of the page you are linking to"> write the title of that same post you are linking to or any other word you want to use(among all the long story here, the only thing your page visitors will see is any name you write here now, and it will appear as a link) then close it</a>

Example:

Say the address i want to link to is http://Bloggerdemmy.blogspot.com, see how i do it.

1, <a href="http://Bloggerdemmy.blogspot.com/">Bloggerdemmy</a>
             
 2,                               Bloggerdemmy

There is not any difference between, between numbers  1 and 2  above. 2 comprise of just same details with 1 apart from the fact that ''Bloggerdemmy'' is the only word seen in 2. That's because it's now a link


You Now Know The Code, Lets see how to get it show like my number two example Above.

To get  the address of any post you want to link to,from blogger posts,edit the post. Once in the post editor, look through the vertical menu at the left side of the editor for 'Link'>> ''permalink'' and click on it. That will generate the address of that very post edited. Then copy it. And return to the post you want to drop the link in.

Why that number 1 example did not appear like number 2 (did not show like a link) is because i did/typed the code here under COMPOSE in blogger post editor. If you want to make a link,remember it's called HTML links, so you need a HTML editor and not text editor to make one, So just click HTML(that's still inside blogger post editor,beside COMPOSE) you will see that a  good part of the whole post/text you already made will turn to some codes (that's HTML codes) ignore this  and search for that particular point you want to drop/fix the link. On locating it, i will repeat, with your keyboard enter

<a href=" paste the address you want to link to;you already copied now,remeber. The address will end with a forward slash (/) so no need putting another one again. Then, do this(">) now enter whatever you want your visitors to see as the link( don't give any space) and close</a>

that's all, you do not need to publish or save in order to see your work, just click on COMPOSE again. All you have written will resurface reappear back to where you were before  in company of the link you made

Another Example

Most times you see stories like...................

.''' With google ads, you get to monetize your page and make good money for more on this click Here.'''

 And perhaps you just wonder how they did it ? It's still what i have here said already. See what they did inside their HTML editor to get that stuff:

                    '''                                                                                 '''
                          <a href="http://google.com/adsense/">Here</a>  

I know why i have to take my time to teach this,so that you won't have to see anything out there and still feel inferior


Good Luck