Tutorial: Adding a link in your Tyepad blog post

One thing I love about the internet is the ability to click on links to get more information about that one idea on a webpage. Links are what make the internet such an expansive world of information. Your blog posts should contain a few links to give readers more information, without going overboard. I wrote about this previously in a post titled: Blog Don'ts #4: Don't put too many links in your post.

Today I would like to provide a quick tutorial on how a link is added in your blog post. It's super easy, but it's always nice to have a step-by-step list so you'll be sure you won't blow up the internet.

How to add a link in your Typepad post
1) First, you'll need to write a new post in Typepad...don't save the post yet. (See my last tutorial, How to create a post using Typepad.

2) Decide what words in the post you will convert into a link and highlight those words by clicking and dragging over them.

3) Clink on the "hyperlink" button in the word processing tools. It looks like a little chain link and appears to the right of the bold, italic and underline buttons.

4) This button pops up a window where you type in the address of another webpage, the page you want to link to. The easiest thing to do here is to have that webpage open in another window and then copy-and-paste the website address from the address bar of that other window. Click "ok" and whallah! You have created a link that will appear in your post.