How to Link to a Specific Part of Another Page
There are times when it’s very handy to be able to link to a section of a page other than the top - like linking to a heading that you want people ‘pop down page’ and read. So you can point your reader to a place lower on the page they’re on (often used as a way to provide a table of contents on a faq page, for example)…
Or if you have html coding access to a different page entirely and you want to send your visitor to a particular section, you can use the same html code to do that.
Here’s how you do it (this is a little confusing first time, so bear with me)
- place this code where you want the visitor to go (this is the anchor):
<a name=”label”></a>A Heading Part Way Down the Page - label = whatever you want to call this section … let’s link to the ‘tips section’ and call it ‘tips’
- so you would change the above code to look like this:
<a name=”tips”></a>A Heading Part Way Down the Page - Now you put this link code on the page your website visitor is coming from:
<a href=”http://www.yoursite.com#tips”>
keyword anchor text here</a>
Remember to use your keyword phrase for the page you are pointing to in the link on the page you’re pointing from so you get backlink ‘credit’ from Google for your target page.
Here’s a working example:
I’ve pointed that link to the section of our learnitstepbystep.com home page that has the membership options. When you click through, you’ll see that you land partway down the page.
Cool huh?
Hope this helps - if you have difficulties, leave a comment and we’ll do our best to get you straightened out 
Make it a great day,
Andrea
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Hi again. I’m confused.
I want my visitor to go partway down my lens, however, squidoo isn’t accepting the code.
So if I want my label to be “foot” then I should place the anchor code on squidoo as I should then place this anchor code next to my heading A Natural Cure For Itchy Feet: Mineral Salts Foot Bath This heading: A Natural Cure For Itchy Feet: Mineral Salts Foot Bath should replace: A Heading Part Way Down the Page in the example?
Now, in the above example, you have the end anchor tag in two different places. Should go right after the anchor tag or right after A Natural Cure For Itchy Feet: Mineral Salts Foot Bath ? or should i place the first code in the body of the module instead of where the module title is?
Now with the second code, I want my visitor to go from my blog to my lens (squidoo.com/itchyhandsandfeet). The keyword anchor on my blog is “Bathe dry, itchy feet” so I should put the second code on my blog and it should look like:
Bathe dry, itchy feet ?
Oop - sorry Rebecca - I had corrected the first one and not the one on point 3.
Fixed now.
And I probably confused things further calling it a header - put it in wherever html code can go.
You can actually even put the #3 example somewhere above the heading/section you want it to ‘pop’ to. So in this case, maybe even at the end of a text module that comes before where you want your readers to begin.
Play around with it a little - it IS confusing till you see it in action the first time. Plus you’re adapting it to Squidoo … I did it in a Wordpress blog to figure it out for you, but haven’t tried it in a lens.
hth,
Andrea
Hi Rebecca -
After I posted this - someone pointed out to me that each Squidoo lens has the anchor codes pre-built into them - neat!
So here’s what you can do:
1. Go to the lens you want to link to.
2. Copy the title for the module you want to ‘pop’ to
3. On your browser click View -> Page Source (a new screen will open with the html for your lens page)
4. On your browser click Edit -> Find (this will search the page for whatever you want)
5. Paste the title you’re looking for into the find tool.
6. Click next - it will find all references to that title for you (no need to hunt through all that crazy code)
7. You should see a # symbol and a module number in the “a href” linking code next to that title - add that to the end of your squidoo lens address (where you added #foot in your comment above)
8. The one you’re looking for in this case looks like this: #module13745078 - see if you see it.
9. Take that #module-number and put it at the end of the link code you would normally use to point at this page.
Should be good to go!
Andrea
Andrea -
Question: is there a way to link to a certain point on my affiliate product’s sales page. I’d like to direct the reader to the free info.
Thx,
Jane.
Hi Jane -
If they don’t already have it tagged with the # mark in the html code, nope you can’t.
You’d need access to the code of the page that you’re wanting to point people at.
I guess it might be possible to recreate that portion of the page and put it on your own hosting or something - would depend on the copyrights, etc… PLUS it might be that you could want to build your own list rather than theirs, yeah?
Advanced stuff - happy to go there whenever the time is right
Andrea
Andrea -
I have tried and tried to do this. I think it’s a very nifty thing and a number of lessons back I wanted to know if this was possible. So it’s here now and I can’t make it work.
I’m trying to point to my squidoo lens from my ad in 3stepads. This should definitely be possible. Before I go bonkers on this, can you give a more simple direction for the lame brains like me out here (if there are any others).
Jane.
Hi Jane -
Sure no worries - this really is something that’s confusing … until it suddenly isn’t, so don’t feel silly for not getting it right away
I’ve just numbered the directions in my comment from 4/23 - do me a favor, follow those and tell me where you get stuck, k?
Andrea