Free Video Course To Learn HTML5 - Link Targets

When you click on a link in a webpage, you are then taken to the destination defined in the hyperlink URL. This video will show you the different targets you can define in the HTML link syntax that allow you more control in how the link acts when the visitor clicks on it. Getting back to my first point, if you have an affiliate link, for example, on your webpage and somebody clicks on that link, whoosh! They are taken off your site and onto the side of the product you are promoting. This may not be the perfect scenario because whether the visitor buys from clicking on your affiliate link or not, they are no longer on your website and may never get back there again. Bye-bye. But there is a way you can craft the code on the affiliate link so that when the visitor clicks on it, an entirely new window or tab opens and takes a visitor to the affiliate's product. This leaves your website still active and open on the visitor's browser. This way, whether or not the visitor buys from your affiliate link, they still have your website open, so they are more likely to come back and check out more of your site.