A friend of mine who has a blog called Frohardy.com asked me today how to turn a picture into a hyperlink. He has some fantastic pictures you should check out by the way. More specifically though, he asked how to make a picture in the sidebar of a Wordpress Website become a hyperlink.
I tried to explain it to him over the phone but instead decided to do a quick tutorial so he could learn, I could become a better teacher and if anyone else is wondering the same thing, this might help them as well.
First I think we should address the question of whether this is a good linking strategy or not. In my humble opinion it is not as effective as typed keyword hyperlinks are. One of the main reasons why it is not as effective is that the visitor does not always know if the picture is a link or not. They will have to roll over the picture and notice the cursor transition that indicates a hyperlink to know whether it is a link or not. Then you need to make sure the picture is explicit enough to tell the visitor where they are going if they choose to click the picture link.
The typed hyperlink is obvious, keyword rich and if the visitor wants to follow it there is no question about what they need to do. With that said, creating picture hyperlinks can add color and be another gateway to your funnel. Most of all – they are cool.
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I just finished my first read through Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook. Notice I said first because there is so much quality information that I know I will be referring to this for a very long time, if not forever and that is a long time. All I can say is don’t miss this one because it is masterly.
If you read my article about internet coaching then you will understand a little about my journey so far in this incredible world of internet/affiliate marketing.
In the past couple of years I have spent practically all of my “spare time” reading, building, practicing, investigating, writing, coding, linking and all the other things that go into this business.
It has been a lot of fun and a lot of information. Not “too much” though because you can take in little pieces and let them sink in and then move on to the next task that naturally builds from what you just absorbed. It is exciting, challenging and rewarding and I am here to tell you, the money is not rolling in, but it is starting to trickle and where there is a trickle, there is a stream and where there is a stream there is a river and rivers lead to oceans.
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Over the past couple of years I have been in serious training and action mode on my internet marketing business. It started 4 or 5 years ago with the thought that someday I wanted to make money on the internet. I didn’t really know what that meant but it sure sounded cool. I signed up for a couple of newsletter subscriptions and spent a little bit of time researching the whole process but still had no idea how it was going to happen. I wish I would have had an internet marketing coach then.
The Beginning
The event that finally put me into action was receiving a newsletter from one of the subscriptions I had signed up for offering a Wordpress class. This class was designed in such a way that you were literally going to watch over the shoulder of the instructor as he created an affiliate site using Wordpress from the beginning. All the way from the beginning, like he didn’t even know what the website was going to be called. It was fascinating and a whole new world opened up to me during that class. Little did I know he would be my first affiliate marketing coach. The class was phenomenal and exactly what I needed to get me up to speed on building websites and learning some of the basics of affiliate marketing. I soon realized – I needed more … I was hooked … I was going to become an internet marketer and I needed some real time mentoring so I became an Elite Member of the Self Starters Forum.
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A friend of mine who has a blog called Frohardy.com asked me today how to turn a picture into a hyperlink. He has some fantastic pictures you should check out by the way. More specifically though, he asked how to make a picture in the sidebar of a Wordpress Website become a hyperlink. 
