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To make it as easy as possible for others to link to your site, I suggest creating a "How to Link to Us" page on your site, and directing people to cut and paste from the prepared code you provide on that page.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I couldn't invite you all over for coffe and dessert, so I figured I'd post some code...
The example below is the markup for a page with;
1. a plain text link
2. a small graphic link
3. a 468x60 banner link
Simply replace yourdomain.tld along with image filenames, alt text and anchor text.
You can easily add to this file if you want to provide more or less linking options. You can get creative and add Javscript buttons to make copying the link code a one click operation, etc..
<html>
<head>
<title>How to link to Us</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>How to link to our site</h1>
<h2>Text Link:</h2>
<br />
Cut and paste the HTML below into one of your web pages.<br />
<form>
<textarea rows=6 cols=50 READONLY NOEDIT>
<A HREF="http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/page.htm">Visit YOURDOMAIN.TLD Now!</A>
</textarea>
</form>
<br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />
<h2>Graphic Image Link:</h2>
<h3>(125x60 Button)</h3>
<br />
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/page.htm"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.tld/images/link_graphic_125x64.gif" border="0" height="64" width="125" alt="Click Here to Visit YOURDOMAIN.TLD Now!..."></a><br />
<br />
Cut and paste the HTML below into one of your web pages.<br />
<form>
<textarea rows=6 cols=50 READONLY NOEDIT>
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/page.htm"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.tld/images/link_graphic_125x64.gif" border="0" height="64" width="125" alt="Click Here to Visit YOURDOMAIN.TLD Now!..." /></a><br />
</textarea>
</form>
<br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />
<h2>Graphic Image Link:</h2>
<h3>(468x60 Banner)</h3>
<br />
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/page.htm"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.tld/images/2006/link_graphic_468x60a.gif" border="0" height="60" width="468" alt="Click Here to Visit YOURDOMAIN.TLD Now!..." /></a><br />
<br />
Cut and paste the HTML below into one of your web pages.<br />
<form>
<textarea rows=6 cols=50 READONLY NOEDIT>
<a href="http://www.yourdomain.tld/dir/page.htm"><img src="http://www.yourdomain.tld/images/2006/link_graphic_468x60a.gif" border="0" height="60" width="468" alt="Click Here to Visit YOURDOMAIN.TLD Now!..."></a><br />
</textarea>
</form>
<br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />
Return to <A HREF="index.htm">home page</A><br />
<br /><br /><hr /><br /><br />
</body>
</html>
Happy Turkey Day '06
I have done something similar on a lot of my sites. It can be a great way to get people to link to you in the way you want. For example providing the HTML code for image or even text links can work wonders.
What can also help is a link to an instructions page where people can read up on exactly how to use your code. There may be people using WYSIWYG editors who simply don't have a clue how to paste HTML.
I believe a link to us page is a great idea.
Mack.
Did you experience any results?
According to your experience,does this really encourage people to link in?
You will still need to seek out link partners.
The point is to make it as easy as possible for them to link to you, and to supply them with the text, html and images you want them to use.
