Links are crucial for sharing information, educating your readers about your blog topics and increasing your topic validity in the eyes of the almighty search engines (if done correctly...but that's a whole other topic).  Not all links are short and pretty and most often it makes more sense to use a few descriptive words or an image to be clear about what you are linking to.

I get a lot of questions about adding links to images and custom text in blog posts.  What that means is, how does one go from:

just using a URL in as a link http://totera.com,

to having specific text Totera Web Systems or,

an image    link to the URL?

It is very easy once you know how, so give it a shot!

I am writing these instructions using Quick BlogCast as the basis, but the instructions are nearly universal for most blog software, word processing applications (Word, Word Perfect, Open Office word processing, etc) and WYSIWYG and HTML editors used in website content management systems (CMS).

1. Add the text or insert the image you wish to have link to another URL (website address); I am going to link the words "click here" in the sentence below.

Example text: I am going to link to a surprise website and you will have to click here to find out what it is!

2. Use your mouse to select the text (like you are going to copy/cut it—it should be highlighted) or click on the inserted image (it should show an editing box around it) you want to use as the link.

3. Once the text or image is selected, click on the hyperlink icon in the toolbar.