Adding A Link To Your Blog Post, Part 2

Adding links, in blog post text, is one of the most basic tasks in creating hypertext content - and it may be one of the most subtly misunderstood too. Like the inability to add a link using the Blogger Post Editor, the ability to correctly specify the link target is frequently seen

I created a standard HTML link
<a href="www.website.com">Link</a>
but when you click the link Blogger turns the link into this
blogaddress.blogspot.com/www.website.com
What is going on here?

Some bloggers do not understand HTML / HTTP syntax, and that's the problem here.

If you specify a link target as "www.website.com", most hypertext content editors will qualify the target with two elements.

The protocol, i.e. "http://".
The base URL of the website being edited, i.e. "blogaddress.blogspot.com".

giving you

blogaddress.blogspot.com/www.website.com

Instead of typing

www.website.com

type the link target as

http://www.website.com

and you'll be OK.

Comments

What's The URL Of My Blog?

We see the plea for help, periodically I need the URL of my blog, so I can give it to my friends. Help! Who's buried in Grant's Tomb, after all? No Chuck, be polite. OK, OK. The title of this blog is "The Real Blogger Status", and the title of this post is "What's The URL Of My Blog?".

Add A Custom Redirect, If You Change A Post URL

When you rename a blog, the most that you can do, to keep the old URL useful, is to setup a stub post , with a clickable link to the new URL. Yo! The blog is now at xxxxxxx.blogspot.com!! Blogger forbids gateway blogs, and similar blog to blog redirections . When you rename a post, you can setup a custom redirect - and automatically redirect your readers to the post, under its new URL. You should take advantage of this option, if you change a post URL.