Bloggers, Allow Your Readers To Open Your Link In A New Window

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Cedric

So you wanna introduce to your readers by asking them to click on a link and go to other sites. Try to imagine a little, isn’t this sad if your readers open the link on a new site and forever stuck there and won’t go back to your site? And it’s even sadder if they left your page without finishing your post.

Here’s what you should do, Wordpress readers who write their posts in visual format will be able to choose whether they want the link to be opened in current page or a new page, which I think is quite convenient. I’m not so sure with other blogging platforms but here’s what you can do to allow your readers to click on the link and open it in a new page.

Supposedly I wanna put a link (GoodBoyGoneBad.com) under “My Personal Blog” and have it opened in a new page, this is what I should do.

link1

After placing a url on those words, simply add “(space)target=”_blank” ” after the url like this

Link 2

And there you have it! People will be able to click on My Personal Blog and open the URL in a new window without quitting this page! Now that’s what I call convenient! Try to walk in your readers shoes because you don’t want people to be attracted to another site and don’t know how to come back! :D

Happy blogging everyone!

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2 Responses to “Bloggers, Allow Your Readers To Open Your Link In A New Window”

  1. Mr Green, on October 1st, 2007 at 8:27 am Said:

    Cedric, can be use in blogspot ke instead of wordpress?

  2. Cedric, on October 1st, 2007 at 1:43 pm Said:

    Yep! You can use this in any blogging platform. :)

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