The internet lets you create a link from some words on your page, to another page on your site, or a page on another site. When someone clicks on the link, they are taken to another page. If you have made it to the point where you are reading this, you have probably already done a lot of clicking on links.

Before I teach you how to link, you should learn a couple of rules. These are not laws, they are not even based on politeness or courtesy, they are rules set by Google to follow if you want to show up in the search engine called Google.

Google’s representatives have stated in a nutshell that they don’t want you to link to bad neighborhoods. These are sites where there are naked peoples, sites where you can gamble, or to sites that are extra sneaky.

Google helps people find the sites they are looking for in a given category. The strength, and the weakness of Google is that it will rank you higher if you have lots of links going to your site. The main way Google measures the importance of your site is by how many, links are going to your site, and how important the sites are that are linking to you. How does Google measure the importance of a site? That is right, by the number and quality of links going to it, and so on, and so on!

So when you start, don’t take links if someone offers to exchange links, and don’t link to sites that are involved with anything sneaky, illegal or naked! (If you want to do good in Google.)

To create a link to another page is simple. My freind Jeremy put a picture of my wife Jo on his main page. The red arrow was not on his site, but points to her picture. It is kind of a big deal, because like 100,000 people can read one of his posts.

You can see the actual picture on this page, click here.

So how did I create the link?

I went to the page I wanted to link to.

Then I selected the address in the top of the browser of that page. That is the part that says, http://www.blahblahblah

Then I clicked at the top of the screen on Edit.

Then I clicked on Copy.

Then I went back into my wordpress blog where I was already logged in.

I then selected the text (In this case it was the words, “click here”)

Then I clicked on the little button in wordpress directly above my writing that looks like handcuffs.

I then clicked in the box by Link URL.

Then I clicked at the top of my screen on Edit.

Then i clicked on Paste.

(This then pasted the http://www.blah part from Jeremy’s site)

For now you can just leave the target and title blank.

Then click on Insert.

You won’t see the link now until you publish the blog, except that the words of the link will be blue and underlined.

A good place to start is to link from one part of your blog to another part.

You can also practice by linking to this page so others can learn how to link!

Here is a list of all the wordpress beginner blogger posts
How to Blog for Absolute Beginners - #1 Start
Absolute Begining Blogging #2 - Catagories
Absolute Beginner Blogging #3 Leaving a Comment
Absolute Beginner Blogging #4 Handling Comments
Absolute Beginner Blogging #5 - Modifying a Published Post
Absolute Beginner Blogging #6 - Generating Viewers
Absolute Beginner Blogging #7 - Links
Absolute Beginner Blogging #8 - Those Funny Links called Trackbacks