Why oh why do people do this?
Was just surfing through some blogs today (I know what else is new I always visit blogs) and saw more than one with this basic mistake. Now to set the record straight these were affiliate marketing blogs that have some great pre-sell articles on them but…
The call to action was a nothing more than a bare link. No hyperlink in the post. On a few, to make it stand out even more they were Clickbank links. You know the kind…
http://mpaet3.eitem.hop.clickbank.net
Not very attractive even if I really wanted to get the product when I could easily make it into something like this…
Even if you are creating redirects like this
http://mikepaetzold.com/likes/vce
People will be more likely to click the middle one and it is really easy to do with WordPress yet quite a few times today I ran across blogs that did the first or the last.
Made me think so I asked myself why? Yes I am old , bald and talk to myself – A LOT 
sometimes the only intelligent conservation I can get. Guess I spend too much time with the turtles
So it came down to two things.
- Laziness – can’t do much for that reason
- Not understanding how easy it is to hyperlink
So let walk through how to hyperlink a phrase or name using the WYSIWYG in WordPress.
Highlight the text you want to hyperlink – in the above example “Get Video Cash Explosion”. Highlight the term and click the rope looking thing at the top
When you click that it opens a box where you add the url, how you want it to open and a title..
and click insert.
So that is all you need to do to make your text be a hyperlink of text rather than just add a straight url to the post.
Mike Paetzold
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Mike great post. Well explained. No reason not to use, except sometimes laziness.
Fred
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Mike, as always you give informative and useful tips. I hope I am starting to avoid this mistake. I have been using this hyperlink a phrase concept for a while.
Good post. Keep the tips coming.
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Oh yes lots more about that such as cloaking and tracking but for bloggers just understanding how to hyperlink is important.
Ah it is only some times and mainly at home. Now to hope that Maude does not see this blog post and I will be okay.