Links play a vital role in any website. By adding relevant links at the strategic locations of your site you can make your site more engaging and user-friendly. It also helps you in accelerating the SEO potential of your site. The best thing is that WordPress offers you multiple ways to easily place the links at different parts of your site. Along with creating hyperlinks into your post you can add links to your navigation menu and sidebars. In this guide we will tell you how to easily add links to different parts of your site:
How to add links to posts or WebPages?
· Adding links in posts or pages are quite easy and you can do it through block editor. Go to your article and select the text that will act as a hyperlink
· Next, click the Link button
· It will open a small rectangular box where you get an option to enter the address to which the link should redirect the visitor upon clicking.
· Entering the title and then press enter for applying the hyperlink.
· You may also link to the specific webpage on the same website. In this case you just need to start typing the title of the post or the page in the given box and a drop-down will automatically show you the suggestions
· You can select your desired post/page by click and then pressing enter. On the right side, you will see an arrow that will allow you to determine whether the page should be opened in the same tab or a new tab
Note: Keep in mind that the opening page in the same tab will automatically redirect the visitors to another webpage. So it is not recommendable to open links in the same tab while hyperlinking text into your blog posts as it will divert the visitors to another page, before they complete reading your blog.
How to insert link in classic WordPress editor?
In the old editor the link button is present in the first row of WP toolbar buttons and will be highlighted when you select any text.
· Upon clicking it you will be shown a box where you can type the or paste the URL where you wish to redirect the visitors
An easier way to instantly add hyperlink
After copying the desired URL you just need to select the anchor text and paste it. WordPress can understand that you wish to link the selected text to the pasted URL. So instead of pasting URL directly into your post, it will simply link it to the selected anchor text.
Inserting links in WordPress text widgets
Many times it makes sense to display relevant text in the sidebar linking to specific WebPages. The users can do this with the help of a text widget.
· Click Appearance > widgets drag text widget into the desired widget area or sidebar
· After entering a text, select the anchor text and then click the hyperlink button
· Following the steps mentioned above you can easily link the anchor text to the desired URL address.
Inserting links in WordPress navigation menus
For adding links to your menu you can use Word Press’s inbuilt menu editor with a drag and drop features.
· Click Appearance > Menu>
· Create a menu by entering the desired menu name
· In the left pane you will see the different pages. Select the pages that need to be added to your navigation menu. Click the button “Add to Menu”
· This process will link the menu options with selected WebPages. Upon clicking those options the visitors will automatically be redirected to the linked pages. >
· On the left side you would see an arrow near the Custom links section
· Click it and then enter the desired URL address and the anchor text
· You can use any URL address that you wish to like your affiliate URL, social media handles or link to your website.