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Rarely does a day go by in which we aren’t asked “How do people find my web site?” or “How can I get some traffic to my site?”

Search engines are the #1 tool people use to find what they are looking for on the web. Getting your web site listed in search engines is the single most beneficial thing you can do to help others find your web site online and to build web site traffic.

For the vast majority of internet users, search engines like Google and Yahoo are the starting points for their web-surfing sessions.

A web site which does not appear in search engines is kind of like having an unlisted phone number… it makes it nearly impossible for anyone to find or contact you. While this may be good for having dinners uninterrupted by phone calls from telemarketers, it’s not so good if your web site isn’t being found or visited online.

Starting on Cinco de Mayo (that’s the 5th day of May for those of you who do not speak Spanish), “Crazy Art” has been offering all WebSpawner members a special price break on Search Engine Submission Services, but only for a limited time.

If you hurry, you can save $10 OFF of a Bronze, Silver, or Gold package and have WebSpawner submit your web site to search engines and directories for you. Have your web site submitted to 100, 200 or 500 search engines and directories for a one-time fee as low as $29.95!

This offer is only available to WebSpawner members, and is only available until the end of May, so don’t delay… there is only about one week remaining for this great sale. Login to your WebSpawner account today and look for “Crazy Art” in the Member Menu to take advantage of his special offer. Hurry… the sale ends May 31st!

The World Wide Web is a huge assortment of various web sites and documents, many of which are linked together for easy navigation from one to another by viewers. The element which creates such an interlinked connection is often referred to as a hyperlink. A hyperlink is either an image or colored text which, when clicked by a viewer, takes the viewer to another web site. In today’s post we’ll cover how to add hyperlinks to your web site.

To add a hyperlink, you use a small bit of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code. Once you understand the HTML format required, adding a hyperlink is really quite easy… you just add the bit of code to the Body Text area of the Modification form for your WebSpawner website.

Let’s start off with a text hyperlink. The HTML code required is in the following format:

<a href=”URL”>
The Text to be displayed goes here
</a>

This particular HTML tag is called the Anchor tag. It’s really not complicated; you simply substitute in the URL address and the text to be displayed. Here is an example:

<a href=”http://www.webspawner.com”>
Create a free web site!
</a>

The line of code above will result in text displaying on your web site like this:

Create a free web site!

The text that you substitute into the ‘text to be displayed’ portion is displayed as colored clickable text, and when that colored text is clicked, it takes the viewer to the web site indicated by the URL address.

Now let’s take a look at the format for using an image as a hyperlink:

<a href=”URL”>
<img src=”URLofImage”>
</a>

Using this format, you simply substitute in the URL of the web site to which you are linking, as well as the URL address of the image that you wish to have displayed (the image must exist somewhere online… see Tips below for more information). Here is a usage example:

<a href=”http://www.webspawner.com”>
<img src=”http://www.webspawner.com/ads/freewebpages/wsanrevb.gif”>
</a>

Adding this line of code will result in a clickable image being displayed on your web site like this one:

When the image hyperlink is clicked, the viewer is then taken to the web site indicated by the URL address.

You can add hyperlinks of either type to the Body Text area of your WebSpawner web site any time you are in the Modification form.

Some closing tips:

• For your first few hyperlinks, try selecting and Copying (Control-C on a Windows PC, or Command-C on a Mac) the format we have provided above and then Pasting it (Control-V on Windows, or Command-V on Mac) into the Body Text area of the Modification form. Then you can easily replace just the URL and Text portions as you wish to create your own hyperlink.

• The easiest way to correctly enter the URL address for a web site is to first visit that web site in a separate browser window, then click in the Address Bar to select all of the address there and Copy it. Then you can simply Paste the entire URL into the Anchor tag code.

• The image used in an img src tag must already be hosted somewhere online where it can be viewed on a web site. You can obtain the URL address of an online image by right-clicking on the image in your web browser, choosing “Properties”, and then Copying the information marked “Location” or “URL”. On a Mac, Control-click on an online image, then select “Copy image address.” Once you have the URL of the image copied, you can then easily Paste it into the img src tag.