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How A Footer Helps You Blog For Business: Practical Tips For Business Bloggers - Part 7

This is going to be a short post - but an important one.  I'm going to introduce you to a tiny, easy to use piece of html code that will help you blog for business. 

It's this: <hr>

It stands for horizontal rule and it does just that.  It draws a horizontal line across your page.  And with that line you create a footer, a space 'below the line' where you can add comments, links and information that you want to share with your readers, but that doesn't fit naturally in the main part of the post.

It's one of the most useful things I've learned in the last six months, and it's changed the way that I write my business blog.

How Do I Format The Links In My Post? Practical Tips for Business Bloggers - Part 6

So now you're convinced of all the good reasons to link out to other blogs and posts.  You've gathered your articles, blogs, addresses of useful sites... but now you're stuck.  What do you do now?  How are you supposed to do it?

Isn't there a trick some people use to format their links?

Well yes, there is, and yes you do need to spend a few minutes formatting your links.  Otherwise when you drop them in they'll look kind of ungainly, like this:

http://www.businessblogangel.com/bizblogangel/2008/05/5-good-reasons.html

Luckily Typepad and other blogging platforms will do most of the donkey work for you - although there are a few additional things it's worth thinking about to make sure you're getting the maximum impact from your links.

Beginners Guide to Getting Massive Traffic from StumbleUpon

This article provides a quick guide to getting your site picked up by StumbleUpon, giving you the potential for attracting thousands of extra visitors.
(I've been meaning to write an article like this for ages, but Miles G at SubHub has done it so well, I may not bother now!)

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