Increase Conversions By Hyper-Linking Images

This is a strategy that I am amazed to see experienced marketers miss out on! It is so simple, yet very effective.

Basically it involves linking all your images to offers or product pages – whatever you happen to be promoting. So if you have a picture of an iPod on an affiliate page hyperlink it with your affiliate link.

You see people love pictures and they love to click stuff – so give big, colourful images to click that take them to the buy page.

Hyperlinking images in WordPress is really simple – you can do it when you first upload the image by placing your affiliate link in the URL box (highlighted yellow below).

The yellow highlighted box is where you put your affiliate link

If you want to add links to images in pre-existing posts you will need to edit the HTML code.

HTML code for an image will look something like this;

<img src="http://example.com/folder/image.jpg" alt="cheap plasma televisions" height="50" width="100" />

The img src refers to where the image is currently hosted, alt is the keyword text and height and width refer to the dimensions. Now don’t worry if your code doesn’t look exactly like this – it might have captions, it might not have the image dimensions – as long as your image is displaying it is fine.

Now, to hyperlink it simply add this text to the front of the existing code ;

<a href="http://your-link.com">

So now you should have;

<a href="http://your-link.com"><img src="http://example.com/folder/image.jpg" alt="cheap plasma televisions" height="50" width="100" />

Finally you need to make a little change to end of the code;

height="50" width="100" />

Change to;

height="50" width="100"> </a>

and you should now be able to click on the image and be taken to your affiliate page.

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