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So plse should I be copying the signatures practices you and Indizine follow as best as I can? I can see that if I click on the anchor links(?) of your signatures, it takes me through to the relevant Home pages of your sites ...

... so if I replace my own current signature with (say) career counselling linked to my Home Page and graduate careers advice linked to the appropriate page of my site, then I'd be following the better pattern you've both set out?

Will wait for you to say "Yes, you've understood" (or "[I]No Linda - try it this way"!!!) before I make the changes.

Thanks to MLF advice, I'm now actively trying to achieve more anchor links for the main pages of my site through article marketing. A moderately ranking student site's just agreed to publish one of my articles on its Home Page and I've tentative agreement from a very popular teenager careers site to take another article. It'll be interesting to see what difference these schemes make to the number of site visits - I feel fairly hopeful.

If poss, I'd appreciate advice on whether I should use the generic anchor link careers for these sites or the separate terms graduate careers advice and careers for teens respectively, plse.

Thanks again, Linda

Lets take you current signature for example - you tell me that you have a website, a blog and also (if I where a spam spider) I can pick up a free email address to send you all my free Viagra offers!

However from my signature I tell you none of the above, however you can see that you can get some PDF Software - Hire some Ski's - etc

So first thing is to use your signature to tell people what you do, you would get more out of signature that purely said "career counselling" without an anchor text because it tells me what you are offering.

As for the anchor text - choose the keywords you refer to earlier and use them for anchor link (making sure to mix and match a little)

wiki says - anchor text

And yours in code should look like this:

"<a href="http://www.careers-partnership-uk.com ">Career Counselling </a>"

Need to remove the " " from the start and finish of above so it reads <a etc

I really have tried to follow instructions exactly and get past whatever I've misunderstood to insert the new signature correctly. I know I'm doing something silly but can't work out what it is - so HELP please!!!

I've tried out variations of present and absent " "s, giving up entirely and seeing whether I could just insert a hyperlink to my career counselling text, going through to see whether I'd inadvertently put in a space that shouldn't be there....

What I'm trying to do is to have a signature that says:-

Career counselling (linked to the page Career Counselling, Career Management, Human Resources Outsourcing, Redundancy Counselling | Careers Partnership (UK))

Graduate careers advice (linked to the page Graduate careers advice,graduate career uk,career what to do | Careers Partnership (UK))

Careers advice for teenagers (linked to the page Careers for teens, career advice for teenagers,careers for teenagers | Careers Partnership (UK))

Yours hopefully from a very baffled me. Best wishes, Linda

Linda

PM me your contact details - and download a free copy of teamviewer and I can help you remotely

No need to sign up to teamviewer - just simply download

Linda

easiest thing is to type your words as below ( or copy if you prefer ) into your signature box via the user control section of the site.

Career Counselling | Graduate careers advice | Careers advice for teenagers

Simply highlight the words you want to be your anchor text for a specific web page eg Career Counselling, then click on the "Insert Link " button in the formatting navigation bar (world and paper click). Simply paste your landing page url and.............. bobs your uncle!

Use the preview signature button to make sure it looks right before saving

Tomsk and MagnifyB - THANKS! I'd got myself into a real hissy fit over this one.

I followed MagnifyB's advice in the end because it was simpler for all of us; however, I've downloaded teamweaver just in case I need to ask for help again!

I've restricted myself to the two site pages, sacrificing the Careers advice for teenagers page because I couldn't squeeze it in (it would have taken me over the signature limit - my page "titles" are very long).

Thanks again. I'm sure this will help ... and I'm also grateful to be rescued from my battles with the computer (it always wins!).

Best wishes, Linda

You actually was referring to adding a hyperlink in your sign and it was anchor text which Tomsk was referring to, which you would add into your site as html code. Thats what threw you - I guess you were putting the html code into your sig and thus it wasn't happening for you.

Thanks Indizine, it's nice having an explanation .... even makes me feel less thick!

Best wishes, Linda

Your welcome Linda

Nice signature by the way