Ooh, an Inbound Link from the US Government
Wed 11 Feb 2009What have I done now? Looking through the site stats I came across an inbound link from www.tsa.gov - the TSA or Transportation Security Administration! Did I accidentally blog about that time I was strip-searched at LAX? No? Ok, well forget I said anything about that then.
Like any sensible organisation, the TSA operates a (Blogger) blog and welcomes feedback from its clients / customers / victims / the travelling public.
A recent post reviewed the TSA’s comment policy and chose to link to one of my more popular posts, Simple HTML for Formatting Blogger Comments, as an example of how to include hyperlinks in comments.
When linking to another blog or webpage, make sure there is no offensive content on that page. Also, long URLs knock our format out of whack, so we have to reject comments containing long URLs. There are a couple of fixes for this. Go to tinyurl.com. It is a free service that will convert your long URLs into a much shorter URL. Also, you can go here to learn how to hyperlink.
Not much of a link, is it? Using the single word “here” as hyperlink anchor text guarantees the bare minimum of Google-Juice. Still, a small drip from a large tap is better than nothing.
I also note that the TSA probably didn’t have to look too hard to find me. As I write this, I’m in the #1 position on Google results for “Blogger comment formatting”.
