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	How Do I Add HTML To My "About the Author Box"

Article Using appropriate HTML code in your "About the Author" box is a great way to drive visitors to your site. Please remember there are only three types of HTML allowed in your resource box:

    * Links to a website or other resource (see below for instructions)
    * Boldface (use <b></b> only)
    * Italic (use <i></i> only)

Anatomy of an Link
The link to a website page (also called an "anchor link") is made of two basic parts:

    * the URL where the link goes (the "hypertext reference"), and
    * the text the reader clicks to get there (the "link text").

A properly formatted link looks like this when you write it:

<a href="http://www.YourFullyQualifiedURL.com">the link text you want readers to click on</a>

Let's say Joe wrote an article about staying organized during remodeling projects and he’s selling a toolbox organizer. He wants to drive traffic to his site by having them click on “cut your project time in half”, which will send visitors to his site, www.JoesHardwareSupplies.com.

The reader will see “cut your project time in half” highlighted in the text of Joe’s About the Author box. When he clicks on the text he goes right to Joe’s site.

Special notes about creating HTML links:

Formatting is the only thing standing between you and a broken link. Follow the above format exactly. Take special note that:

    * The URL (http://www.joeshardwaresupplies.com) is wrapped in straight quotes, not curly quotes. If you use MS Word to write your articles, be careful that you aren't using curly quotes. Learn how to fix and avoid the curly quotes here.

    * In the above example, there is no space between > and the word “cut.” That’s because you don’t want your text to start with a space. One space is needed before the link. Then, either a space or an ending punctuation mark (a period, question mark or exclamation point) is added after the link. There are no spaces within the link itself.

    * You may link your readers to any page on your site that makes sense. Joe could have linked to http://www.joeshardwaresupplies.com/toolboxorganizer.

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Feb 16 2009 7:45 PM

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