How to Add Internal Links Within Blogger Posts

In the Blogger tutorial I discuss how to add internal links within your Blogger posts (Blogspot posts) to point to either another section within the same post or to another post.

There are lots of times when you may want to direct a reader to a different part of your Blogger post depending on what their needs and interests are. Or you might want to alert the visitor to something significant in a related post. In this article I will show how to make use of internal links both within posts and in Blogger generally.


Why bother with internal linking you may be wondering? Well the answer is to improve SEO. Blogs with a good internal linking structure will fare better than blogs that don't link posts. Plus you will be creating an aid to navigation for your reader. On longer posts jumps links to different sections within your post or to other posts mean readers can quickly find the information they are looking for.

How to Create Internal Links To Sections Within the Same Blogger Posts :
Consider the above links. Click on them. Each jump the reader to a different part of this article. This type of internal linking is common practice in website building and can be equally applied to blogs to assist with navigation.


How did I create these links? The answer is that I used simple html that anyone can learn in a few minutes. Here are the steps I used to create these links.

1. Log in to Blogger
   
2. Go to Posting > New Post or Edit Post and either create a new article or edit an existing one.
   
3. Within the article find a place where you want to add some jump links. This will be early on in the article as it will help the reader figure out what information is significant to them and how to get there quickly
   
4. Switch to the Edit HTML mode rather than compose mode so you can see the code you are inserting into your post
   
5. Create a couple of headings that will be your links to material further down in your Blogger article. Note you can also just jump to a word but for the purposes of this demonstration and clarity I am going to use headings. When creating this post I used the following headings:
   

How to Create Internal Links To Sections Within the Same Blogger Posts

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<a href="#SamePost">How to Create Internal Links To Sections Within the Same Blogger Posts</a>

finish:
<a name="SamePost">How to Create Internal Links To Sections Within the Same Blogger Posts</a>

How to Create Internal Links To Sections Within the different Blogger Posts

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<a href="URL html#your key text">your text finish</a>

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<a name="your key text">your text finish</a>

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