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Here it is.  They say that you should give your best stuff away.  That is what I am doing here.

If you are a coder, go away.  This is stupid to you.  If you are not a coder and you are a beginning or intermediate blogger then this simple piece of HTML code can make you rich.

Look at it, burn it into your memory, never forget it!

<a href=””></a>

That little baby should be on your desktop, or instantly at the ready for when you are writing a blog post, or sending emails, or posting comments on blogs, or posting messages to forums.  That simple little piece of HTML code is your new best friend.

Every hyper link on the internet starts with that simple little piece of code.

Now I have said many times before, I am not a coder.  I had to learn every single thing I do by myself by reading, asking dumb questions, and trial and error.  You know what they say; “There is no such thing as a dumb question… except those are the easiest ones to answer!”

At first this little piece of code just looked like something crazy to me, but now let me try to explain it in non-technical terms.

The <a part gets the attention of the Wizard of OZ.  The href=” part tells the internet that the thing that comes next will be a url to somewhere.  The “> part says that everything before the close quote is the link and now I am going to point you to some text that I want the link to represent.  Finally the </a> means everything before the left pointing carrot is the previously mentioned anchor text and then the last slash a> closes it and says; “There I am a genius and I created an anchor text hyper link!”

Example: <a href=”http://www.alinkgoingtosomewebsite.com”>I am a genius</a>

Here is the easiest way to use this information.  Keep it handy as I said, and when you want to use it copy it into an HTML edit mode document and insert your url link between the quotes and insert your anchor text between the carrots, save and now you have it!

If you are using WordPress and you are creating a blog post you can select the “Visual” edit mode or the “HTML” edit mode and make sure you are using the latter when you paste in your final anchor text link.

Now go forth and spread your links.