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Adding Items to Your Posts
You can add more value to your blog posts by including links to other web pages, as well as labels that help categorize your posts. Read on to learn more.
Adding Links to Your Posts
One of the neat things about a blog is the ability to link to other pages on the Web, via the use of inline hyperlinks. Fortunately, Blogger makes it easy to add links to your post.
LET ME TRY IT: Creating Links
You add links to your text while you're creating a blog post. Follow these steps:
- From the New Post page, highlight the text from which you want to link.
- Click the Link button on the formatting toolbar.
- When the Edit Link dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 6.8, make sure the Web Address option is selected and enter the URL for the link.
Figure 6.8 Linking to another web page from within your post.
- Click OK.
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Adding Labels to Your Posts
When you get a lot of posts in your blog, it becomes increasingly difficult to find any particular post. You can make this easier for your blog visitors by using labels to categorize your posts. Visitors can then click a label in the label list to view all posts related to that particular topic.
Figure 6.9 shows how labels appear underneath a blog post. These labels are clickable, so visitors can view similar posts by clicking one of the label links.
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Figure 6.9 A blog post categorized with labels.
LET ME TRY IT: Adding Labels
To add a label to your post, follow these steps:
- On the New Post page, enter the label into the Labels box, as shown in Figure 6.10. You can enter multiple labels for any post; just separate the labels with commas.
Figure 6.10 Adding a label to a blog post.
- Complete your post as usual and click the Publish Post button.
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