Ok so this is to help those that don’t know about redirecting links and also opening them in a new window so you don’t lose the traffic to the site you are linking to.

Sounds simple and I know a lot of people already know how this is done but I mentioned to someone that they should open the links in a new window and they said how do you do that.

My first thought was it’s amazing what you forget you didn’t know,if that makes sense.

Anyway down to business here in wordpress it’s pretty simple, all you have to do is highlight the text you want to link then hit the insert/edit link (Alt+Shift+A) button as shown bellow.

Enter the url you want to embed and then where it says target not set, select open in new window and your done.

Now if your doing it on a webpage or blogger blog in html the the line of code you need to use is below.

<a href=”www.yourlinkhere.com” target=”_blank”>your text to link here</a>

Easy as that now the thing is if your an affiliate you will get a lot of links that look like below.

<a href=”www.yourlinkhere.com”>your text to link here</a>

the link is fine and will still work but it will open up in the same window meaning it will load over your page so if you had other things you wanted your visiter to see they would have to click the back button, but chances are if they don’t like the new page they will click the close page rather than the back button and in doing this closing your page maybe never to return.

Well that’s all for now I will leave the redirects for another post.

Take it easy,

Anything else you need to know or even if you just thought this was helpful leave a comment.

Thanks,

James