Thread: Help with linking

How do I put a link back to my web page from a classified ad? The tool bar that is showing when I put the ad on doesn't have any indication there is a link in like this thread box does along with all the pages in BV.

donprofit profitinforeclosures.com

Yesterday I asked about linking from a classified ad to my BV web site and didn't get a reply. Probably no one understood what I was asking. I'll try to explain in a different way.
I'm giving away a free report and advertising it on various free classified ad sites. I've typed my ad on MSWord and cut and paste it into the ad. The link I set up on Word works fine but doesn't translate over to the ad.
The tool bar that appears when I'm typing the ad doesn't have a link button (like BV). How do I make my link work in the ad? Hopefully someone can figure out what I'm asking, or will question me to figure out what I'm trying to do, and be able to help me.
Thanks,
Don

Don,
If you want to send me your ad - to any email address in any of my signature sites - I'd be happy to look at it to answer this. Most likely it's simply adding the link in an html statement.

BTW - using MSWord can be dangerous - as it is not an html editor. Be very careful in copying and pasting directly from it.

Beth,
I'd like to send you my ad but I can't come up with your email.
What would be a better place to write my ads than MSWord?
I want to link to my site profitinforeclosures.com on BV, how would I do that?
Don

all my stores have email addresses in the contact info - but take out the extra space here and you can email me:
beth @ moxie-enter-prises.com

And you can write in MSWord - but then rewrite in notepad or an html editor - so that you don't copy and paste code you don't want from MSWord (in other words, copy it into notepad or any html editor - then make changes if necessary - THEN copy it to the website).

I still don't have an answer to my question of how do I link back to my BV website from a classified ad when there is no link icon in the tool bar. Surely someone has a simple solution for me. I know you think it's a dumb question but humor me as I'm not very knowledgible on computers.
Thanks,
Don

You need to write the link into the ad in html as an a href statement - so when you give someone the image to place your ad - or you write a text ad - you need to include the link - in a text ad - you would take your name and write it this way:
<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.com">Link Text</a>

When you put the html in the ad does it stay there so readers can see it? How do you trigger the link? I got it figured out when there is a link button.
Don

Don: You might want to visit THIS SITE for some basic html help. It will help explain what Beth is saying above. I have found it teaches a little html like how to link text, so that even I can understand it.

Hope this helps.

Dream Lady,

Thank you for the site. I went there and it looks good. I still have the stupid questions. When html is put in a document to make a link does it stay there where the reader can see it? Does the html activate itself or does it have to be activated somehow? Answer these two questions and I'll be happy.

Thanks,
Don

Don-
It will depend on the site if they allow links. Like this forum has a hyperlink icon that allows a link set up.

There is no code that will automatically- in every instance - set up a link that if someone clicks on it- will take them to your site.

Andy

Don,
You are asking the same questions here that you asked me and I answered via email.

Andy, what do you mean there is no code that will in every instance set up a link to make it clickable. Sure there is - that's why we write the codes. Now, some sites might not allow links at all - in which case they remove the code. Sp you might mean that.

Cindy,
I gave him w3 schools via email yesterday - glad he's finally looking there.

Beth-
Yup- thats what I meant, or at least what I interpreted Don's post to mean. For example- the below code placed in this forum does not create a link (which I believe is what Don was trying to do). And therefore- although the code is correct, in this instance, it will not link.

<a href="http://www.netisopen.com">Link<a/>

Andy

I don't know what to think now. I ran a test on my website using 4 different link setups. I used the link button, html box, cut & paste from notepad using Beth's html and a typed one using her html again (everywhere I looked hers was correct). The results were: the link button & html box worked perfect and the other 2 didn't. Obviously I'm missing something here.
If it helps my web site is profitinforeclosures.com. The test page is still on there.

Ok- exactly what is your question?

The manner in which you did links #2 and #4 on the test page work.

Andy

My question is why won't #1 and #3 work? I thought that when you put the html in the build page text then published it that the link activated itself. Is this true or is there something else that I need to do? How exactly is this supposed to work? Like I said I'm missing something in all the info I've read on html and all the things you folks have told me.

#2 and #4 work because you build the code into the page. # 1 and #3 dont because they are added to the page as text.

For example- when you click on the image icon and place an image onto the page- the BV web builder does the "coding" for you as to where and how that image will be displayed. You did not have to code it like;
<img src="my_picture.jpg">

The same with the text icon. This merely places text on the page. The coding for placement, font, color etc. is done by the BV program and If you were to include html context in the text area it will show as text only and will not activate. But- when you opened a html box- it told the BV web builder that you were placing specific html code here and treated it accordingly.

I hope that makes sense and explains it a little better.

Andy

Yes I understand all that. This started out as a question of how to link back to my BV website from a classified ad. There is no link button or html box to work with.
I was given code as in message #7 and told if I put that in the text in my notepad and cut & pasted that into the ad it would be a link when it published. It didn't work so that is when I decided to try it with my BV website. Of course I still couldn't make it work.
Is what I described what I'm supposed to do to make a link or is it something else? It's like I'm trying to get someone to tell me a highly guarded secret. All I want to know is how to put the html (I guess) into text and when it's published it acts like the link button and turns into a link.
Please let me in on the secret of how a link is supposed to work from html on a text page to when its published.
I know I kind of rambling here but I'm trying to ask what I want to know in every way possible so maybe someone can help me.
I've been asking the same basic question for a week now and everyone seems to have a different idea of what I'm trying to do.
Don

Don-
Unless the website hosting the ad provides for an avenue for you to create a hyper-link- YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT. If this forum did not have an avenue (such as the hyperlink button above) to make a hyper link- you would not be able to create one on this forum.

If you open note pad and type in; <a href="http://www.mywebsite.com>CLICK HERE</a> and saved the document as a text document-THE LINK WOULD NOT WORK.

If however you saved it as an HTML Document- IT WOULD WORK.

No secrets. Thats how it works.

Sorry- but I don't know how to explain it any better.

Andy

That seems simple. Here's another question, how do I save it as a html document. The only choices it gives me is .txt and all.
Don

Put a .html after the name you have chosen for the file/page


Andy

I thought I had it made when you said put .html after the file. Every time I try to save it I get the choice of either .txt or all files. I know there must be another way of saving the file, but I can't find it.
On another note the code works fine in the file I'm trying to cut and paste but doesn't transfer to the webpage. Is that because it wasn't saved as a .html file or what?
Don

I thought I had it made when you said put .html after the file. Every time I try to save it I get the choice of either .txt or all files. I know there must be another way of saving the file, but I can't find it.

Choose all files. Then type what ever name you wish the page/file to have and add .html - For instance. If your page is named page1, you would put page1.html

On another note the code works fine in the file I'm trying to cut and paste but doesn't transfer to the webpage. Is that because it wasn't saved as a .html file or what?
Don

I suspect that you are using Microsoft Word/Office to write this. It is working because the link function is turned on in MS Word/Office. If you were to use notepad - it would not work. Remember- it is a function that must be enabled or used in its proper enviroment to work.

Andy

I have done what you said over and over again (as far as I can tell) but when I publish it has the html that I typed into the text and not the link. Somehow, even though I save it as html and I can go back and it verifies it as html, it must be changing back to .txt.
The html of the page has the link in it.
I'm doing something wrong but what? I've literally spent all day on this and am no further along than when I started.
I've even typed the link and published it and that doesn't work either.
Don

Don-
Lets say you were able to get the link to work after you saved the page as .html.................What would you then do with that page with a link on it?

Copy and paste into the ad web site? That won't work.

You have been successfull in making links above in two instances.

If you are trying to create a link - in an ad on another web site - to link back to yours........It won't work. The only way it will work is if you talk with the host of the web site and ask them to put it on their site -IN YOUR AD.

You are missing a large concept here -in that, html code works in specific instances and in certain formats. It will not work simply because you type it somewhere.

Andy

I've given up on trying to put it in an ad. I'm just trying to get it to work here in my BV website. I just tried to make it work by copying the code that worked with the link button. Nothing.
I can't figure what I'm doing wrong. I've made some text in notepad and saved it as .html. I then cut & pasted that into the test page, saved it and published it. All I got was exactly what I had on my test page, no link.
I'm missing something here.
Can you walk (baby steps) me through it just to put it on my website test page? If I can see that maybe I can get it into my head.
Thanks,
Don

Don-
Have a look at the link below. That is as "baby-steps" as it can get.

http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/hyp...mages-etc.html

Andy

I feel like I'm going around in a circle. The link button works great and I know how to work it and the html box. What I'm trying to do is see how the html code works. I figured if I could get it to work in my BV website I might be able to understand it a little bit. If I can't even get it to work here then I guess I'll never get it to work in an outside medium such as an ad or an email.
Thanks for trying.
Don

Don, I have answered your email again.

You are not understanding that if you want to use html in your text, you HAVE TO PUT THAT TEXT IN AN HTML BOX on your website.

If you want to use the text box - then you HAVE TO USE THE TOOLS PROVIDED BY BV to add the linking. The html CANNOT be used in a text box.

Hey Don,
What is the page of the add that you are trying to place this add onto.

Hi Garren,

I've pretty well forgotten putting an ad on any specific ad site. Right now I'm just trying to figure out how to make a link using html from a text I've written on notepad. I thought I'd go back to basics and try to make it work on my web site. I know that the link button and html box are the way to go when putting a link on a website but what do you do when there aren't available.
What I'm attempting to do is learn enough about html to be able to make a link at least work somewhere using just html. From what I'm being told is that it won't work the way I'm trying to do it.
I know it works somehow and I'm just trying to find out how to do it. If you have any ideas on how to teach a dummy like me how to do it or why it won't work.

Thanks,
Don

Don,
What is it that Andy and I are both telling you that you don't understand?

BV ALREADY has it's own coding - which means you HAVE to use their tools to use their text boxes.

If you want to do YOUR OWN CODING - YOU MUST USE THE HTML box to add that text. You told me you did it and it worked. You cannot mix the two methods.

Notepad has NOTHING to do with it in this sense - it's just where to WRITE the code so that nothing is added you don't want (which can happen using something like word. If you took the code I gave you and copied and pasted it to notepad - it wouldn't look any different or do anything different - therefore, it would be good code to be copied and pasted into the html box (or anywhere that you can use html) for the web. If you took that same code and put it into word, then copied and pasted it - you might get some extra stuff that would then make it not work properly. The only reason you were told to use notepad is to keep the code clean.

As to the rest of your last question in my email - when you are needing to code something that you won't be able to use in BV - like an ad going onto another site - that is when you'd do it in notepad, writing the html - then checking it on one of the sites I gave you to check it - so you know it works - then you'd give that code to whoever needed it.

Meantime, since you are so lost in this - I suggest you stick with BV and make the site - which is why BV is made so that people do NOT need to know html. You are getting lost in this right now :)

Beth,

That makes more sense to me now. I'll quit trying to make it work when I guess it doesn't. One last question, when and where would I use that code that you gave me? Could I use it to put a link in my email, if so how?
That's it, no more dumb questions.

Thank you for your help.
Don