Hyperlinks are considered either "external" or "internal" depending on their target or destination. Generally, a link to a page outside the same domain or website is considered external, whereas one that points at another section of the same webpage or to another page of the same website or domain is considered internal link.
Pay Attention: Replacing Older and Newer links Text in Blogger
We sometimes put links to our blog articles. And naturally, our visitor will click on those links. By default when a link is clicked it will open in the same window. To prevent your blog readers from leaving your blog without reading any or only one post, you must think to open links from your blog in a new tab. It also helps in increasing your overall page views and reducing bounce rate. Blog bounce rate is one of the important factors in blogging and is simply defined as the number of readers leaving your blog without reading any or only one post. It means more the bounce rate lesser the engagement. When we consider reducing our bounce rate, the first thing our mind suggest is opening the links in a new tab and its importance increases when it comes to external links.
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Steps to Open all External And Internal Links in New Tab:
- Backup your template before editing (Optional)
- Go to your blogger dashboard > Template > Edit HTML
- Press Ctrl + F to find <head> tag
- Add the following piece of code just below the <head> tag
- Save your Template, you are all done.
<base target='_blank'/>
Now whenever you click on any links on your blog, it will take you to the same resource in the new tab and your current tab will remain open until you'll close it by yourself.
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