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LIVE LINKS inside your Blog Posts on ArtId
by art_marketing , July 8, 2008—12:00 AM
Linking to web sites throughout the Internet is a good way to build traffic. Especially if you can get reciprocal links back to your website. One way Search Engines deam your rank and importance is by how many 'relavant Inbound links' your web site has. Meaning, the more people who link to your website, the better your rank when someone is looking for you on Google.
So make sure you link, link, link when you are posting a blog on ArtId. And make sure you tell everyone else you know who uses the Internet to link to your website on ArtId!
There are two ways our site recognizes something as a LIVE LINK.
1. Type in a URL. When you submit the post live, our code will automatically convert it into a live link. For example, Come see my latest work on ArtId www.artid.com/mize The actual URL will become a live link.
2. You want 'words' to be the link without the URL showing. Then you need to type in some html around the words along with the URL.
For example, in my most recent blog post, I wanted to link to an article on Hubspot using the name of the article without the URL showing.
7 Reasons Why you Can't Trust The Webmaster With SEO
I'm going to break this down for you so you can see how I typed things (otherwise the site keeps turning it into a live link :))
You need to type quotation marks around the words you want to have as the live link "7 Reasons Why you Can't Trust The Webmast With SEO" then put a colon "7 Reasons why you can't trust the webmaster with SEO": then the exact URL .....Why you can't trust the webmaster with SEO":http://blog.hubspot.com/et.aspx?p=RrepeSZItRIIuzNrKAfVviuGSWRYjCLK
When the post goes live, the words will be the live link.
Let me know if you have any problems or questions. The more links we put into our posts, the better the traffic. Of course, Inbound Links are the most powerful for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). However, if we reciprocate by linking to other sites, then they will link back to us!
Go forth and Link Link Link
COMMENTS
( homepage )
08/12/2008 * 10:00:30
You know Jessica, I've tried this many times and sometimes I get the words to be live and sometimes the http address is live. I think I'm doing it the same every time. Maria has had the same experience when she is posting ArtId blogs.
We are trying to find out why this is so, and we suspect it's the way things are coded because it works fine in some instances and not in others.
We'll see if we can get you an answer.
( homepage )
08/12/2008 * 02:32:29
Hm I tried this and ended up with a colon and the words rather than a link. Any other punctuation need to go in there?
Michael Mize ( homepage )
08/25/2008 * 23:57:57
I've been doing a little experimentation and I think I've isolated one of the factors that result in the URL showing up live versus just the text that's been put inside the quotes.
You have to make sure and elminate the http:// prefix that shows up if you've copied and pasted a URL straight from the address bar into your blog text. Also make certain the the www. prefix is in place. I had a few links that weren't cooperating and when I made these adjustments they both went live.
Hope this helps! Happy Linking!