how to change what links look like?

  • I have an affiliate blog and am tweaking it so that it converts better into sales.

    One issue Im working thru now is just making the copy flow better and look nicer.

    At present the anchor text links I have sprinkled throughout the post are coming up as a different color and underlined so they stand out like a sore thumb.

    I realize this is beneficial in many cases to point out a link to be clicked on, but in this case I want them to just blend in so that the reader can have a nice flow and not even know the link is there.

    Im not talking about hidden text keyword stuffing shady bs, rather I have various keywords that I am trying to rank for in organic search hyperlinked to another specific page of my blog and I don’t want people to necessarily navigate away from that sales post to visit it. It’s for seo.

    I am looking in the template files but cant figure out how to fix this so that links look the same as the surrounding copy

    Thanks for any help

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  • you have not given enough information to get detailed help.

    you will probably need to edit style.css of your theme, and add a new style for links in post content, something like
    .entry a { text-decoration:none; color: #000; }
    but this totally depends on your theme.

    a link to your site might help.

    Thread Starter jhess56

    (@jhess56)

    i thought it would be some general something in the main template of all themes

    Thread Starter jhess56

    (@jhess56)

    Thanks for the reply, I would have thought it was something cookie cutter across all wp themes.

    Here is one of my blogs that is a perfect example

    Any help is appreciated,thanks

    https://www.frozenshoulderpainblog.com/

    adding this somewhere to style.css of your theme should work:

    .Post a:link { color: #000; }

    Thread Starter jhess56

    (@jhess56)

    excellent thanks!

    heres a tricky one now….i DO have SOME links that i DO want to be a different color to stand out, namely the call to action ‘click here to buy now’ type links

    how do i keep the general links blended in as alchymyth was kind enough to show me, yet highlight red or green or whatever, the links i want to stand out for the call to action?

    do i need to use some sort of tags or html code in the individual posts to make them separate from the general code i have inserted into my theme for the other links to blend in?

    thanks!

    Thread Starter jhess56

    (@jhess56)

    the code seems to work on one site and not others. is there a specific place in the style.css file i need to place the line of code for it to work …or maybe i need to delete some other line of code that is blocking it?

    ive tried

    a.ld_link:link {color:#000000;}
    A:link {text-decoration: none}
    a {color:black;text-decoration:none;}

    in various places in my style.css file in my wordpress admin panel..appearance/edit and nothing is having an effect

    i would post specific url but the one im in now is adult related
    any thoughts?

    Anonymous User

    (@anonymized-3085)

    @jhess56 – please start a new thread, include a link and preface the title with [NSFW]

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