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How do you do this in Aweber?

by David_Thompson
6 replies
Guys, how do you make your emails look like plain text but
the links and everything else looks like html?

I see a lot of people doing it and to be honest i like the way
it looks and wouldn't mind testing.

--David
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  • Profile picture of the author indexphp
    All you do is make your link <a href="#">http://display-url.com</a> - You know what I'm saying? You can turn the display text in a link to whatever you want, so just put the http:// address in there.

    Edit: Now obviously that is a dead link (#), so replace the pound sign with the real URL to point them to. It's just easier to read and understand with the # sign in there.
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    • Profile picture of the author David_Thompson
      Originally Posted by indexphp View Post

      All you do is make your link <a href="#">http://display-url.com</a> - You know what I'm saying? You can turn the display text in a link to whatever you want, so just put the http:// address in there.

      Edit: Now obviously that is a dead link (#), so replace the pound sign with the real URL to point them to. It's just easier to read and understand with the # sign in there.
      Ok so what you are saying is that i can have something like this:

      <a href="my URL Here">Keyword or http://display-url.com</a>

      and still be using plain text, right?

      --David
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  • Profile picture of the author indexphp
    No, only in HTML. In plain text, yo'd have to set up a redirect page and link to that (cloak). So for example, http://whateverurlyouown.com/go.php

    ...and go.php is just a PHP redirect page with this code in it.

    Code:
    <?php
   header( 'Location: http://your-affiliate-link.com' ) ;
?>
    Chances are, what you are seeing are HTML emails that don't use any HTML (except for the link), so they look like plain text.
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    • Profile picture of the author David_Thompson
      Originally Posted by indexphp View Post

      Chances are, what you are seeing are HTML emails that don't use any HTML (except for the link), so they look like plain text.
      That might be true, so how how the hell they do that just
      add the text in the html area but make the links href so they
      show up in the email as keywords?

      --David
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  • Profile picture of the author BestWebber
    Thanks - I have been wondering this as well....
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    David,

    Just build the email in the HTML window without changing any styles. Then turn your keywords into links. It looks like a text email but contains the html needed to properly display the links.

    Do a test email and send it to yourself to see how it works/looks...
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