Some Basic HTML Tags for Article Submissions
If you’re going to be involved online, you should probably learn some basic HTML. I know that I talked about this is a previous post as well, but this time I want to give you some specific examples. Specifically, I want to go over the tags that you should know for article submissions.
Most of the article directories that I’ve dealt with only have basic text editors for you to enter your article into. Well, if you want your article to have a little formatting, you will have to do all of that stuff manually. Whether it be adding stuff in bold, italics or whatever, you’ll have to do it the old fashioned way. So here are some of those basic tags and how to use them.
Bold
<strong>text to be bolded</strong>
Italics
<em>text to be italicized</em>
Unordered List
An unordered list is one that has bullet points, not numbers. So to start one, you have to use <ul>. Then you’ll have your list of items. Before each item, you put the tag <li>, then after each item you put </li>. Once you are done with the whole list, put the tag </ul> to end the list.
Example:
- Item 1
- Item 2
Ordered List
An ordered list is a list with numbers in order next to each item. You do these the same as the unordered list, only you need to open the list with <ol> and close the list with </ol>.
Example:
- Item 1
- Item 2
Hyperlinks
For information on creating hyperlinks, I’m going to refer you to a post I did previously that will cover it in more detail:
Creating Links for Article Submissions
Related Posts
Creating Links for Article SubmissionsHelpful Resources
Meta Tag Guidelines
Some Thoughts on Duplicate Content
Don’t Forget to Vary Your Anchor Text!
Nice tips. I just started working on my site a few months ago, and the hardest thing for me has been learning html and some css. It has gotten easier though, that’s for sure.
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It seemed a chore to learn when I first started out but knowing the basics of HTML is a real help and a time saver to boot.
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I would recommend to everyone getting involved in ecommerce to learn at least the basics. Yes, you can get by without it, but you can do so much more if you’ll take some time and at least learn some of the things here.
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Dan, thanks for the information on htmls, we will being going to school some more to learn about them.
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I agree. I finally got around to learning a bit of HTML the past few weeks. After all these years of not knowing how. It’s kinda tedious in the beginning but it’s all good fun once you’ve got it wired.
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Hi Sally,
I’m glad that you’re having fun with it. One of the fun things to me with HTML and other programming like that is that you can actually see what you’re doing and how its working.
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A lot of article directories won’t let you use any tags. Fearing that you will try and put links in your article
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Cool! Thanks for the post.
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Very specific.It is of great help to the first learners.
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