Part of the guide: Affiliate Marketing
This may be a little advanced for some people, but if you’ve ever wondered how to get a link to open another window instead of leaving the existing page I’ll lay it out for you in this article. I really like to use this in my links because whoever clicks on my links will have two of my windows open instead of just one.
Personally when I’m surfing the net I like to click links that open another tab because if I missed something on the first site it’s easier for me to get back to what I was originally looking at. One thing I hate is being on a website with a bunch of cool stuff clicking on something and then seeing something even cooler right when the link takes me to another obscure page that has no relevance to what I’m looking for or the link simply doesn’t work and it takes me to an Oops! Sorry we can find that page message.
O.K. so let’s get into the hard core jedi ninja moves. Really, it’s not that hard. All you need to do is add this to the end of your website URL (link) target = “_blank”. I don’t think it will work unless you get out the HTML nun chucks and go all out but here’s a full example of what that should look like.
EXAMPLE: <a target=”_new” href=”your website URL (link) here” target = “_blank”>your word here</a>
Alright, as I’m looking at this it does look a bit complicated but don’t be afraid, all you’re really doing is wrapping your link in a cozy HTML sandwich. Just put your link where it says “your website URL here (with the quotations around it)” and put a cool word or phrase where it says >your word here (with the alligator mouths around it)<, forget about the rest of it. As a side note you should put the HTML code in your post using the HTML tab or click on the source tab. If you’re not sure how to do that just look for the tab that makes your post look like it’s written in Klingon and paste it in there.
I would like to mention that some sites will automatically make your links open up in another tab. In these situations you don’t have to get technical with the HTML code you just have to hit the link button and enter the URL or web address. From what I’ve discovered you will have to use the HTML code when you’re posting on a blog or website that has WordPress installed on it. I’m not a big tech geek and I don’t claim to know everything about the internet, this is just what I’ve found out so far. Feel free to comment if you are an expert in this area and give us all a little schooling.
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Comments
John Doe, September 17 2011, 12:00
Great article! Helped me a lot!
Jane Roe, September 18 2011, 13:00
Thanks for the tips!
Mike Smith, September 19 2011, 14:00
Very informative, appreciate it!
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Worth saying plainly: most people who copy that exact snippet and paste it into the visual editor instead of the HTML or source view are going to end up with broken markup, not a working link. The post does say to use the HTML tab, but that instruction is buried after the example, not before it, and that’s exactly the point most casual readers stop reading closely.
Notice the actual reason given: not ‘better for the reader’ but ‘so whoever clicks has two of my windows open instead of one.’ Fine to want that. Just don’t dress it up as a favor.
Hector’s right about the editor trap, and there’s a second failure point in the snippet itself: it has target=’_new’ at the start of the tag and target=’_blank’ at the end of the same tag. Two target attributes on one element, browser picks one and ignores the other depending on parser behavior. Input -> one attribute survives -> output is inconsistent across browsers. The fix is one attribute, not two: drop _new entirely and keep _blank.
Tomas is right about the duplicate attribute, that’s a fair catch and worth fixing before anyone copies it verbatim. But I think what’s being missed is that the underlying idea being taught here, one clean target=’_blank’ attribute instead of two conflicting ones, is still exactly the right thing for a newer blogger to walk away with. A messy example teaching a correct concept is a much smaller problem than a clean example teaching the wrong one, and this post is the first kind, not the second. Credit to Hector and Tomas both for catching what the example actually does wrong, because that’s the part the original post admits it might have gotten wrong when it invites anyone who knows better to jump in.