Sunday, May 25, 2008

Opening Links in a New Window

Getting traffic to your site is one thing. Keeping traffic is another!

In most situations you will want links in your site or blog to open an entirely new window. In other words, when someone clicks on one of your links you want the destination site to open in a new window. Usually, the window you are in will close and you will only see the destination site.

Why open links in a new window?
  • Most of the time we really don't want to loose our visitors
  • The more eye-time your site gets the more chance you have of building a relationship and making money
  • Once your site visitor leaves they may never find their way back to your site

That's why... so here's how to do it...

To get a link to open in a new browser window, what you do is add the target="_blank" attribute to your link tag, like this:

<a href= "http://worldape.blogger.com" target="_blank"> Visit WorldApe!</a>


The link given above will give you the following link:

Easy Steps for those in need:

1) Copy and paste the HTML (shown below) into your site or blog
2) Change the URL to the destination site
3) Change "Visit WorldApe!" to whatever you want it to say - such as "Click Me!"
4) Bookmark this site - It takes 2 seconds and it will save you the pain of finding it again!

Good luck!

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