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What is a Links Page?

(This is a copy of the web page in our software. None of the links below are live)

This page can be used to organize your pages in your website or to link to other websites.

Organize Pages

You can use a links page to organize your website by creating a links page with links to pages in your website.

For example, you could organize your website like this:

  • Home
  • Products
    • Fruits and Vegetables
    • Meats
    • Grains
    • Dairy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Where Home, Products, About Us and Contact Us are in the index. When you click on Products you get links to Fruits and Vegetables, Meats, Grains and Dairy.

Links to Other Websites

You can use it as a resource page with links to other websites. For example, if you are a doctor, you could use it to link to your recommended medical resources.

Screenshot

Overview

Steps covered in this Links guide:

  1. Adding a Links Page
  2. Editing the Header/Footer
  3. Adding Internal Links
  4. Adding External Links
  5. Editing and Deleting Links
  6. Adding Headings
  7. Changing the Order of Your Links and Headings
  8. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info
  9. Adding a Friendly URL

1. Adding a Links Page

  1. Click on the "Add Page" button from your toolbar.
  2. Click on the "Links" button.

  1. Enter the name of the links page (e.g. "products"). Check the checkbox if you wish the page to appear in the index of your website.
  2. Click on the "Add Page" button.

2. Editing the Header/Footer

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. To edit the header and footer of your page, click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Add your text to your header and footer then click on the "Save" button.

3. Adding Internal Links

Internal links are links to pages within your website. This is an effective way of creating subpages.

To add an internal link:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Add Links to Pages in Website" tab.

  1. Checkmark the pages you want to add to your links page and click on the "Add Links" button when you are done.

Optionally, you can hide your subpages so they do not appear in your index:

  1. Click on "Manage Pages" from your toolbar.
  2. Click on the "Hide" button beside each of your pages.

If you would like to add text or an image to go with your link, follow the directions here Editing and Deleting Links

4. Adding External Links

External links are links to web sites not on your website.

To add an external link:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Add Links" tab.

  1. Fill in the link information including:
  • Name of Link
  • Web Address (URL) - make sure you include http:// in the address
  • Description
  • Image - see How do I add an image? for instructions
  1. When you are finished click the "Save" button.

5. Editing and Deleting Links

Editing a Link

To edit an existing link on your links page:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Edit Links" tab.

  1. Click the "Edit" button beside the link you want to edit.

  1. Make changes and then click on "Save" when done.

Deleting a Link

To delete a link on your links page:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Edit Links" tab.

  1. Click on the "Delete" button to the right of the link you want to delete.

  1. Click on the "Delete" button on the next page to confirm you wish to delete or if you change your mind, click on the "Cancel" button.

6. Adding Headings

Headings are useful for organizing your links into groups. For example, you may have a page with links to 10 Animal Websites and 10 Plant Websites. You could add a heading called "Animal Websites" and a heading called "Plant Websites".

To add a heading to your links page:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Add Heading" tab.

  1. Enter the title of the heading and then click the "Save" button.

7. Changing the Order of Your Links and Headings

Since you will rarely enter links and headings in the exact order that you want to display them, you can resort your links at any time. To sort your links and headings:

  1. Go to your Links page.
  2. Click on the "Edit Page" button from your toolbar.
  3. Click on the "Edit Links" tab.

  1. Put each section in order according to lowest number (being the first section) to the highest number (being the last section).

    Example:

    If you have your links in the following order:

    10 Multimedia
    20 Feedback
    30 Guest Book
    40 Maps

    and you would like to move Multimedia so that it is between Guest Book and Maps, change the number for Multimedia to any number from 31 to 39.

  2. Click the "Save" button when done.

8. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

The title tag and meta tags you add to your site can help you with your search engine listing. Below is an explanation of what they are used for and how to enter them in. Additionally, for advanced members, we have included access to the <head></head> section.

Title Tag

The info in your title tag is often used by search engines as the text to link to your page.

Each page has its own title tag info. Some search engines may also look at your title tag for keywords that will bring up your site on their listings. Your title tag info also appears at the top left of your browser window.

To edit your title tag info on your page:

  1. Click on "Edit Page" and then click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

  1. Under "HTML Title Tag," enter in your title.

  1. Then, click on the "Save" button.

Note that if no title tag is entered, your title tag info is filled in with whatever page title you enter.

Meta Keywords and Meta Description

Meta tags (i.e. meta keyword tags and meta description tags) are sometimes used by search engines to help decide where to rank your web site. Each search engine has its own set of criteria and may change it from time to time. Usually the meta tags are inserted in the heading section of your html code. Within the tags, you would put a description of your site for the meta description and some keywords for the meta keywords.

We have two methods of adding in your meta tags. The first method adds the same meta tags to all your pages. The second method allows you to have individual meta tags for each page. The second method will override the first method for any page you add individual meta tags. For info on the first method, please go to Marketing Your Site: Meta Keywords and Meta Description

The second method is controlled right on your page.

  1. Click on "Edit Page."
  2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

  1. In the space provided, type in your keywords (separate each keyword or keyword phrase by a comma) and your description. Please note that there is maximum character limit of 500.

  1. Lastly, click on the "Save" button at the bottom.

Head Access

For advanced users, you can enter code designed for the head area of your source code. To do this:

  1. Click on "Edit Page."
  2. Click on the "Internet Marketing" tab.

  1. In the box under "<head> </head> tag," enter in your code and click on "Save."

Please note that you should not enter in your meta keywords or meta description code here and leave the designated boxes we give you blank. When this is done, you end up with something like this in the code:

<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="cars,import cars,car detailing,car parts,honda,toyota,ferrari">
<meta name="description" content="The best source for import car information including tips on car details.">

Many search engines will only view the two blank meta codes.

9. Adding a Friendly URL

You have the option to customize your web address extension. For example instead of the www.YOURADDRESS.design-own-web.com/page/page/12345.html format you could have
www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html To set this up, under "Add a Friendly URL," enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is www.YOURADDRESS.design-own-web.com/index.html.

You benefit from this because:
  • It makes your web page more search engine friendly and should result in a higher ranking.
  • It makes it easier to give your customers a web address for any page on your site.
  • It mirrors the structure for web page names on big corporate sites.
To set this up:
  1. Go to the page you want to change the extension of and click on "Edit Page."
  2. Under "Add a Friendly URL" enter in the extension you would like. For example, if you enter index, the result is
    www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html

  1. Save your page.

Notes:

  • If you have your own domain name (e.g. YOURDOMAIN.com), your address will show as
    www YOURADDRESS.designownweb.com/index.html or www.YOURDOMAIN.com/index.html.
  • Only letters, numbers and underscores allowed. Sorry, no numbers on their own (e.g. 9876) or underscores on their own.
  • Once you change to a customized extension, you cannot change it back to the page/page/12345.htm format.
  • If sites/search engines/directories/etc. have linked to your old page/page/12345.htm formatted pages, these links will forward to the new address. If you are listed on search engines/directories, note that they usually update their listings periodically. When they get to your link, they will delist your page/page/12345.htm formatted pages and in most cases will re-list the page with the new web address. Each search engine/directory has its own rules so there is no guarantee these pages will be re-listed. You may have to resubmit.


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