Adding Hyperlinks to your Mega Mall pages

One of the fundamental things that glues the Internet together is the hyperlink or sometimes just called link. Every one of your Mega Mall pages can have many custom links that you create yourself or copy and paste from somewhere else. In the next few posts are going to look at three different ways to get links into your pages.

Linking Text

When adding a link to some text use your WYSIWYG editor and highlight the word(s) you want to link and click the Insert Link button.

Now we’ve found a vendor on ClickBank that is paying 60% for referring sales for their scrapbook products. This is a product that is perfectly targeted to the page content and our audience. We located the vendor and made a hoplink at ClickBank. The page looks like this.

This is not critical for the linking operation but we thought that now is a good time to analyze a hop link from ClickBank. The hoplink contains three variables. They are shown in the image above.

Affiliate Nickname - this is your nickname you created when signed up at ClickBank.

Vendor’s Nickname - this is the vendor’s identifier at ClickBank.

TID or Tracking ID - this is some short identifier to let you know where your sales come from.

We simply copy the URL from ClickBank into our clipboard by highlighting it and pressing CTRL and C together.

Now we need to paste the URL  and click the Submit button.

Now the page is updated and shows our selected text as a hyperlink.

Congratulations! You now have an affiliate link in your page. Whenever someone clicks on this link, ClickBank records the fact that they came from your web site and will credit you for sales you refer. Next we will add a link to an image.

Best wishes,

DotStartUp

Making an Image Clickable

In some cases you want to make an image clickable; after all a picture is worth 1000 words. The process of hyperlinking (or simply called linking) in the Mega Mall content editor is similar for images as it is for text. First you select what you want to link then click the Create Link button.  In our example, we’re going to add an affiliate link to the image we insterted before on our home brewing example page here. 

First we click the image we want to add a hyperlink to. Once the image is selected we will see its Handles.

Next we click the Create Link button.

The next step is to enter the URL.

It should be noted that you can paste a copied link from an affiliate program and it doesn’t have to be a link from one of the Mega Mall affiliate programs. For example it could link to Commission Junction, LinkShare or even be a non-revenue link to Wikipedia for example.

Paste or type in the hyperlink and click the Save button.

Finally and most importantly, check your link.  Click the View link above the editor and this will open the page your are workin on. When the page opens, check the image you just hyperlinked is ok and then click the image. Does it go where you expected it to go? If it does congratulations! If it does not, go and check your link.

Checking a Bad Link 

Somtimes humans make mistakes and it results in a bad link. Maybe a link is missing the ‘http://’ part or some other part of the link is malformed. Also, sometimes the page you want to link to has moved.

Links can often be pasted directly into your web browser’s address bar. Do that and click the green arrow to the right of the address bar.

If that doesn’t work, you have a bad URL and it needs to be corrected. Check the URL for anything that looks suspicious. When you have the correct URL, re-link the image by followin the steps above again.

This applies to text links as well as images…

Don’t forget to test your links!

Best wishes,

DotStartUp