How to Link up Your Project to a Linky Party {Tutorial}
Hey Ladies!
Since I am so excited about my linky party next week (March 31st), I wanted to make sure that everyone knows how to link up their projects.
I’ve had a few people email me to ask me how to do it.
So if you do not know, here is the post for you.
(And I want to share a Party Etiquette Rule too.)
:)
Step One:
After publishing the post you want to link up to the party, you will want to copy the POST ADDRESS (not your blog address).
For example:
My blog address: http://www.beneathmyheart.net
My post address that I want to link up: http://www.beneathmyheart.net/2011/03/diy-kids-beach-tote-bag/
See the difference? The post address has the title of my post in it.
Here’s how to get your post address:
1. You can right click on the post title and click “copy link location” like in the picture below…
2. Or you can click on the title of the post, wait for the page to reload, and then copy the address that appears at the top of the page…
Now that you have copied your post address, you are ready to link it up to the party.
Let’s say I wanted to link up to my friend, Beth’s, Tutorials and Tips Tuesday Party.
I would open up a new window on my computer and go to Beth’s Linky Party.
Then I would scroll down to the end of the post and find the linky tool…
Then you will see three little blank fields show up (usually).
1. You want to paste your POST ADDRESS in the first blank field.
2. In the second blank field, you will want to put the title of your post, or the title of your blog. This is what shows up below your picture. I usually put the title of my post. Sometimes I have to shorten it. Each linky party is different, so sometimes you can use a lot of characters and sometimes not. For my post, I wrote the name, “Kids Tote Bag”.
3. Add your email address.
4. Click “next step”.
(Some linky tools will ask you where to chose your picture from, if so, click “WEB”.)
Then it takes you to a page that looks like this…
(Some linky tools have one more step that lets you crop the picture.)
Chose the picture you want to show up at the party, and hit “select”.
Your picture will show up like this…
Voila!
But you are not finished yet!!! You need to do one more thing!
It is really poor party etiquette not to link back to the party host in your post.
You can link back to the party in two ways:
1. Use the Party Button.
or
2. Link back in a text link.
To use the party button, you need to highlight the code in the box below the party button.
Make sure to scroll as you highlight so you get the whole code. Then copy the code.
Then you want to go to your post and paste the button HTML code in your HTML view.
When I click on my “visual” tab, Beth’s button will show up in my post.
Here it is in blogger:
(You can also save the button as a picture, upload it in the post, and then hyperlink it to the host.)
Here’s how to HYPERLINK:
2. You can also add a text link that looks something like this:
To add a text link, you highlight the text you want to hyperlink back to the host blog.
Then you add the Host Blog Post Address
Click “add link”, and you are finished!
The hyperlink button in Blogger looks like this:
Adding a link back to the Party host is great party etiquette.
It’s a way to say “thank you” to the host, and it hopefully leads your readers to visit the host blog as well!
If I do not have time to link back to the host, then I do not link up at all.
:)
So hopefully this tutorial was a little helpful.
Hopefully, I have not confused you even more.
If you still have questions, ask me in the comment section, and I will try my best to answer them.
I will be posting the linky tool for my party one week from tonight, March 30th, at 9:00 pm EST.
I cannot wait to see everyone’s BEST DIY project that they completed in March.
(Remember only one per person.)
Be sure to read the Party Rules if you missed them.
If you do not have a project to link up, you are still invited to the party!
Stop by on March 31st and check out the BEST DIY Projects of March!
Thanks for doing this…I never link up to parties because I couldn’t figure this – easy, simple – process out! Duh. I will get brave and try it out soon. That is as soon as I get some free time to actually sit at my computer and do it.
Traci, it was really kind of you to write this out. I remember that back in 2009 I had NO idea how to do this. If it hadn’t been for the kindness of Susan at BNOTP and Emily at Chatting at the Sky, I might never have known what to do! So now you’re carrying on that tradition of kindness. That’s so like you! :)
Your monthly party will be a highlight, I’m sure! :)
OOOh a new blog party, and on my birthday too! How exciting! Great post! You did awesome. :)
THANK YOU! People always ask me to link up to them and I have tried but could not ever get it done. I am going to come back to this page again and again until I get it done. You’re awesome!
Didn’t see this post back in March, but now know that I will be including it in EVERY post that I do from here on out ;)! I googled this topic because some readers asked me to do a tutorial and I just knew someone had to have a good one out there and low and behold not only did one of my BBFF’s write one but you included ME in it ;). Love you friend. Fab tute.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! So helpful…I will be sharing when I host a party. Your blog is amazing, too! Thanks for the help.
-Kristen Bowers (aka Secondary Solutions)
This is a great tutorial. S-P-E-L-L-E-D O-U-T. I love it!
I’m on my way to do one of my first linky parties!
Thanks so much!
THANK YOU!! I’ve been asking around for exactly this information and Beth at homestoriesatoz.com pointed me to this posting.
We are training a few new gals on how to do Link-Up Parties & your tutorial is the BEST one out there that I’ve found. Thank you SO much for putting this together. I will be referring all of them to this post. XO, Tara @ The Dating Divas
Thanks for the tute! I was confused because I am a new blogger. I had begun by linking the parties to every post. Then, I saw that some people had pages with all of the link parties listed there. So, I began doing that instead. Now, I see that I really should have done both and I don’t know how to go back and link up because I’m not exactly sure who I linked to what posts. Ugh. What does a girl do?
HI Erin!
Welcome to blogging! :)
Do not worry about going back to the older posts and fixing them. I would just add the links in your future posts. No worries. :)
This is great. I found you through The Turquoise Home. I am a brand new blogger and have been wondering about the link up parties. This was excellent. Thank you!!