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Blogger Help Series 3 - Linking Out Pages in Blogger

This third series on Blogger help shows you how to create static pages that link out to pages outside your Google Blogger blog , unlike the default pages that link only to actual pages on the blog.

A static page as the name implies is a page that is not displayed in other places of the site.

Unlike the normal posts you make on your blog that can be visible immediately on your homepage, static pages can only be viewed through the link to it on your home page.

If you don't link to the page through your home page then readers can't find the link to it.

Examples of static pages are the 'About' page, and the 'Contact Us' page. You can create a page on anything you want and then link to it from your home page.

Static pages can also be used to make direct links to other sites.

Google blogger blog allows you to create a maximum of 10 static pages from your blogger dashboard. But you can only use them to link to pages you have created on your blog, you can't link to other pages on other sites.

This series of blogger help will show you in a minute how easily you can create pages that link within your blog and outside your blog.

First step is to make sure you have added an extra widget to the header of your blog. Part 2 of the blogger help series shows you how that is done.

Step two is to add the codes below to one of the header widget/gadget you've created.

To do that, click on "Page Elements" then click on "Add a Gadget" on the header part. When the page opens, click on 'HTML/Javascript' and paste the code below inside and Save.

<div>| <a href="URL 1">Link 1</a> | <a href="URL 2">Link 2</a> | <a href="URL 3">Link 3</a> |</div>

Now preview your blog to see what has been achieved.

Blogger Help Step 3 : Create Actual pages and Generate Links to Replace the Ones Above

From your dashboard click on "Posting". Click "Edit Pages". Followed by "New page". Give your page a Name.

This should be the name you want the URL to read. It is the name in your title that will form the URL of the page.

If you want the title different from the way you want the link to read, after you have published it, you can go back and edit the title to any name of your choice. It won't affect the link.

Type what you want the page to read.

If you want to allow comments on the page, just click on "Post Options" just below the content form and select "Allow Comments". When you are done, Click "Publish Page"

You have three options of where to display the link on your blog.

Sidebar

Blog tabs

And No Gadget

To link page manually (which is what we want to do) click on 'No Gadget'. With that you are simply saying you wish to link manually.

Then click "Save and Publish".

Under "View Page" click on "Add the Page List Gadget".

It displays the configure page list box. Just make sure the "Automatically add new pages when they are published" is unchecked' as it is displayed below.

Then Save the page.

Now to get the link of that page, click on 'View Page' and copy the URL link from your browser. Then edit the information in the code above.

Where you have 'URL 1' enter the URL of the page you have created. Then enter the name that you want displayed as the link text (like where you have Link 1, enter your own text).

Save the Gadget.

Now preview your blog and click on that static page link from your home page, it should now link to the page you just created.

To link to other pages and sites, just add the page or site's URL to your code in the gadget (code above). And you can add as many pages as you want.

We have just three lines of links saved to the gadget. So when your links gets to the fourth, fifth and so on, just copy one link code already there, paste below the last line and edit with the new page's information.

Blogger Help Tip

If you don't see the need of linking out through pages to other pages/sites, or you think you can do without it, then stick to the static pages offered by blogger.

You still follow the same procedure except that you wouldn't have to save any HTML code to your Gadget.

And when choosing where to display your static page link on your home page, just choose between Sidebar and Blog tabs.

I think the blogger default blog tabs is cool. Look at the image below for an example of how the default blogger static page 'Blog tabs' links will look like.

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