When we receive files for building blogs sometimes clients want to have anchor text links embedded into their articles. Occasionally things do not go according to plan and the links we receive do not work.

In order to make sure that articles with anchor text links in work correctly when inserted into WordPress two things are needed:
1) The files should always be sent as .txt files. Any other format allows characters that may interfere with the appearance of the article when it appears in the blog.

2) The links should be ‘fully formed’ in the following format:
<A HREF="http://littleautomaticmoneymaker.com/order-form"> The text you want on the page </A>
This format gives you the following appearance:
The text you want on the page

Now all your links will work properly.

Until using links in this way becomes second nature it might be worthwhile to copy/paste from the example above. After a few times it’ll all fit together and writing links will be just a normal thing to do.

As a standard tool in all our blog installations we use a plugin that automatically turns ordinary text such as knowhow-now.com or www.armyofexperts.com into live links. This is a very useful function and can be a big time saver when writing posts with lots of web addresses.

I hope this helps!

Andrew.