Basic Blogger Tips: How to Create Text Links That Open in a New Browser Window

Bloggers often find it necessary or helpful to add links to other pages or sites to their blog posts. This article explains how to create text links that open in a new browser window, meaning your reader won't leave your blog if they click on the link.

All too often bloggers lose first-time readers as a direct result of placing helpful links in blog posts. The key to successful blogging is to keep visitors on your blog long enough to convince them to subscribe, which may not happen if the first post they come across leads them somewhere else, which in turn leads them somewhere else, and...well, you get the picture...

The best way to avoid this problem is to edit the html code of the link created with the blogger text editor to redirect link to open in a new window.

How to Create Text Links That Open in a New Browser Window

• Create your link as usual, with the blogger text-editor (in compose mode, highlight the word or words you wish to turn into a link, press 'Link,' and enter the URL or email address you wish to link to). 
• Click 'Edit HTML' above the text editor, next to 'Compose.'
• Find the HTML code for your link, which will look something like the text in the following image (click to enlarge).

• Add the following code snippet directly after the URL's end-quote, and before the arrow-brackets: target="new" - as shown in the following example.

• Publish your blog post and check your link - it will now open in a new window, meaning your traffic won't be diverted away from your blog. The RSS link below is a working example.

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