Three of the most basic neat things you can do on a blog are sharing a link to another site, a video, or your own photos. The question of how to do this was asked this week in our Facebook Group how to do this, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you this quick walk-through of how to add a link.
Over the next couple of days, I will include posts on adding photos and videos as well.
HTML Links
There are two ways to put a link into a blog post: HTML code, or through the blog’s dashboard. The latter is the simpler way to do this, but it’s still important to know why it works. For that, we need to start with the coding.
A link in HTML looks like this:
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Okay, so you’ve started blogging. People are starting to find you, and you’re slowly gaining a following.
So how do you get the people who’ve found you to keep seeing what you’re up to?
Here’s what you need to know: Every blog has an RSS feed. (RSS stands for, “Really Simple Syndication,” but you don’t need to remember that for anything.) That feed contains everything that has been posted on that blog.
You can usually find the feed on a blog by looking for this image:
If the blogger is just connecting this to the raw feed, it will look like this:
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It’s been suggested that the IsaGeeks stop being such egomaniacs, get out from in front of the camera and just do a podcast. I mean, really – we have faces for radio anyway, (“Except for me.” – Eric) and the video guys were getting tired of our demands for designer water and only orange M&Ms. (The blue ones aren’t ripe yet).
So we finally got our act together (sort of) and recorded our first podcast, where we discuss the new Facebook layout, Google Plus, smartphones, and Twitter tools, among other things. Click the more link to get to the audio:
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