When building backlinks by submitting articles to directories you will need to know some basic web page HTML codes in order to create links. Unlike in WordPress where you can easily insert links in the post or page editor, some blogs and article directories like Ezine and Go Articles will require you to do the HTML coding for your links manually.
I have listed down HTML code for backlinks that can help you. These HTML codes are also handy for bloggers.
1. Simple text link
You will need the ‘a href’ tag when you want to build links. For example, suppose I want to create backlinks for the URL, http://www.heleninnes.ca/ and the anchor text I want to use is ‘Helen Innes’, and I want to insert the link in the middle of a sentence.
The code will look like this:
Contact <a href=http://www.heleninnes.ca/> Helen Innes </a>
for more information.
The result will be:
Contact Helen Innes for more information.
2. Image Link
If you want to insert an image link, you will need another HTML tag. You use the ‘img’ tag in connection with the ‘a href’. You use ‘img scr’ to state the location of the image file.
For example, presume the source of your image is http://www.heleninnes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pic01.png and you want the image to be a link pointing to the URL, ‘http://yourwordpressexpert.com’.
Your code will look like this:
<a href=” http://yourwordpressexpert.com”>img src=”http://wp-admin/
content/yourwordpressexpert.com/image01.jpg” /> </a>
The result will be:
You can add other attributes to optimize your image for SEO. You can put your keywords in the alt attribute, title and caption. To know more on how to optimize your images read my article Simple image optimization tips or watch my video How to optimize images for SEO.
3. Break Tag
I find this very helpful when I am submitting articles in Go Articles. I often used this in the author resource box. It helps to make the author box easy to read, by adding line breaks.
Here is an example of how I would use the break tag <br> in an author box.
The code will look like this:
More Articles from Helen Innes <br> 1. How to optimize 404
Error Page <br> 2. Google URL Removal Tool <br> 3. Best
Article Directories forbacklinks <br> <br> Contact Helen Innes
for more information.
The result will be:
More Articles from Helen Innes
1. How to optimize 404 Error Page
2. Google URL Removal Tool
3. Best Article Directories for backlinks
Contact Helen Innes for more information.
4. Strong Tag
If you want to bold a word or a phrase, you will need the ‘strong’ tag.
Use <strong> at the beginning of the word or phrase and </strong> at the end.
The code will look like this:
Contact <strong> Helen Innes </strong>for more information.
The result will be:
Contact Helen Innes for more information.
I hope these free web page HTML codes will help you. If you need help with your website HTML codes contact me.
About Helen Innes
Helen Innes is a professional SEO consultant in Calgary Canada, resident SEO blogger and SEO writer for various article directories. If you need help or further assistance about this topic just leave a comment below or contact Helen Innes. This article may not be republished without the express permission of Helen Innes.
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