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How To Create Hyperlinks In Wordpress Post

by James Pierson
5 replies
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1. I have written a post that is about 3000 words long. I want to break it up into different sections and have sort of a table of contents at the top.

Headline/Title:

Table of contents
subsection 1
subsection 2
subsection 3

(Body):

subsection1: (subheadline - hyperlink)
body text

subsection2: (subheadline - hyperlink)
body text

and so on

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I want to be able to link to the subsections from anywhere and not the whole post since it would be more specific.

How do I do this?
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2. I would also like to know how this would affect SEO?
#create #hyperlinks #post #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Jason Z
    Hi James,

    What you want to do is set the href to link to a hashtag link id or name such as: #name

    Then the item that is being linked needs an id with that name. For example:

    Code:
    Table of Contents

<a href="#1">subsection 1</a>
<a href="#2">subsection 2</a>
<a href="#3">subsection 3</a>

(Body)

<h3 id="1" name="1">Subsection 1</h3> - blah blah balh
text

<h3 id="2" name="2">Sebsection 2</h3> -blah blah blah
Text
    You dont necessarily have to put <h3> tags around the item being linked to but whatever tag is around it needs to have a corresponding id and/or name. I like to use both name and id just to make sure it works in all browsers. But if it's in a paragraph you need <p id="1"> etc.

    Hope that helps.

    Jason.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Z
    Oh and as far as SEO. That page might get some boost if the items you wrap the <a> tag around for the link are keyword rich. But I don't expect it to have have huge seo impact either way.
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    Jason Zimmerman is an offline marketing and consulting professional. He has been developing web sites and digital marketing plans for local businesses since 2000.
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  • Profile picture of the author barrentine
    Hi i am new to this forum,can u please explain in detail.
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  • Profile picture of the author RhysLucas
    I am agree with Jason Z . His suggestion is very nice
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  • Profile picture of the author primitip
    You can use this tag to split your post into several pages..
    Code:
    <!--nextpage-->
    Then use the page URL on your table of content href
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