Adding A Link To Your Blog Post

Occasionally, you see a very odd, cryptic complaint

I just added a link in my blog, but the link vanished!

No, it wasn't your imagination.

With some web sites, you

1. Decide where to put a link, and position the cursor there.
2. Hit the Insert Link button.
3. Paste or type the Caption (visible text).
4. Paste or type the Target (non visible URL).
5. The editor adds the link to the caption, and adds both to the article, where you had positioned the cursor.

With Blogger, and a few other web sites, the procedure is ever so slightly different. You

1. Paste or type the Caption, as you compose the text of the article, in the body of the post (or the page).
2. Decide where to put the link, and highlight the link Caption, in the body of the post (or the page).
3. Hit the Insert Link button.
4. Paste or type the target URL. Be careful, and get the syntax absolutely right.
5. The editor adds the link around the highlighted text, and to the article.

Please note that I edit my posts in HTML mode. Be kind, when reading my tutorial, below. Switching between Compose and HTML mode is not always easy.

"Compose" or "HTML" - the process is basically the same.

1. Compose the text - including the link caption.
2. Highlight the link caption.
3. Click "Add link".
4. Paste or type the URL of the link target.
5. Click "OK".
6. Get to work on the rest of the post.

This post, in need of a new link to another post.

This post, being edited.

Highlight the link caption.

Hit the "Add link" button.

Paste or type the link target URL, and click "OK".

Here is the updated code.

Here is the updated post.



This is yet another feature that makes Blogger different from a few other web sites. And having been through the above, you may find Blogger Help: How do I make a link to another webpage? to be useful.

Please note that all of this advice is most useful, with link colours and text colours carefully chosen, in combination.