Bookmarking - "X" Marks the Spot

Have you ever wanted to send traffic to a specific spot in a lengthy web page? Not a problem, jump links were made for the task. What's even better, once a jump link is created, you can bookmark it for use at a later date!

Introducing the Jump Link...

Just insert a bit of link code in the editor's Text tab. When your visitor clicks that link, they'll be whisked to another spot on the same page. For example, the following will create a jump link to a location called "collar" elsewhere on the page. The anchor text for the link code shown below is "dog collar", and it links to a place on that same page named "collar".

<a href="#collar">dog collar</a>

Note that when you create the anchor name (the bit inside the double quotes, after the # sign), it's going to be part of a link. Translation: make sure it begins with a letter, which is followed only by letters, digits, hyphens, or underscores.

... and the Target for the Jump Link

Next, tell the browser where the target can be found. Insert this little bit of code where you want your visitor to land (also in the editor's Text tab).

<a name="collar"></a> 

When your site visitor clicks on the jump link shown in the upper code box, their browser will shift their viewpoint, putting the target location called off in the second code box at the top of the browser's window. You can make the link jump to a spot further down the page, or take your visitor back up toward the top of the page. Beauty!

Targeting a location on another page - exactly!

You can even have your visitor jump to a targeted location in a different page on your site - or even jump from another site altogether to the specified target on your site!

To do so, you need to use the entire URL for the jump link,, including your site URL, page name, and target name. Using the same example, the link for the jump would be

<a href="http://yourdomain.com/pagename#collar">dog collar</a>

When a visitor clicks on that link, they'll be whisked to the site, the page, and the target within that page - the exact location you've specified!

In both cases, the link would appear as "dog collar" underlined in blue, and the destination would be the specific location you defined as "collar" on the page.

Now go forth and direct traffic!

Dennis

EDIT: I'm late to the party!

It turns out that Loes published a training on jump links at https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-to-ad... nearly a year ago, and HelenDoyle did a training on this subject just after my blog was published. It can be found at https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/internal-...