Hyperlinks?

[Tiggy]

Hi All

I thought I understood hyperlinks but not so sure now!!

I had an email this morning from a lady in USA who is going to 'reciprocal link' with me.

She said 'my web designer still needs to make me one; I'll let you have then'.

I didn't think the webdesigner had anything to do with it. I though it was just a case of entering the web page/URL of where you wanted to link to and just typing it in somewhere. No??

I haven't got my site yet as it is in the process of being built.

Tiggs

[multilingual]

Hi Tiggy,

It is always a good idea to write the hyperlink text to correspond with the keywords and business field of that site.

ie - just putting a link saying 'click here' doesn't actually tell a search engine anything, but putting a link that says 'click here for children's books' will give it a clearer picture to the likes of Google/Yahoo etc.

So the person sending you her link will want you to use the text that she has written herself as it will probably be written with search engine optimization in mind.

It could also be that she wants you to use a graphic link rather than plain text.

Hope it helps

:)

JB

[Tiggy]

Thanks very much!! Yes I have just looked at her site (properly!!!) and all of her links are graphics, not text as I initially visualised.

How do I get my own graphic link? Do I have to ask my web designer?

Tiggy

[multilingual]

Tiggy,

Why would you want a graphic link?

take a look at:

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/why_are_text_links_better_than_graphic_links.html

JB

[Tiggy]

very interesting link - sort of understood it!!

Well I don't actually want a graphic link on the lady's website but it seems that the only links she has are graphic ones.

I'll email her to clarify this.

Thankyou
Tiggy :)

[Quan]

Perhaps there is a connection between text links being more SE optimized and there being only graphic links on the lady's website. :lol:

[MinuWeb]

a text hyperlink you could make by modifiying the code below

this will take you to google (www.google.com)

this will create a text link that says "this will take you to google"

for an image link use

http://www.link/to/your/image.gif (www.google.com)

Replace the link to your image with one that works, the image size accordingly and of course replace www.google.com with your URL :D

[DuaneJackson]

this will take you to google (www.google.com)


Don't forget the http://

this will take you to google (http://www.google.com)