To my friends who link to articles here, especially to plug them on Facebook…
I appreciate that more than you can know but let me tell you the proper way to do this. Each post on this blog has a unique link to it. The link is embedded in the subject of the post. For instance, the link to this post is above in the word "Happy Blogkeeping." In the case of this message, the link is http://www.newsfromme.com/2013/04/03/happy-blogkeeping-2.
That's the link you want to paste into some other webpage or Facebook posting or Tweet in order to link your readers to it. There are two ways to get this link…
- Right-click on the subject and depending on your system or browser, you should be given some sort of option to copy the link into your clipboard. For instance, in Mozilla Firefox, you want to "Copy Link Location." You can then paste it wherever you want it to go.
- Click on the subject. That will take you to a page that contains only that post and it will have the link in the URL window of your browser. You can then copy that URL and paste is wherever it belongs.
If you just link to http://www.newsfromme.com, the link will take people to this page and they'll start with whatever is the most recent post at that moment. By then, that may not be the one you wish them to read.
If you're doing a Facebook link, you'll usually be given the choice of a thumbnail illustration snatched from this page. It may or may not be one that corresponds to the article in question so scroll through them and pick or select "none."
As I said, I appreciate the links. Keep doing it. Just try doing it this way.