Sunday, 11 May 2014
Automatically Open all External Links in a New Window in Blogger!
This script will only detect external hostnames and the moment it finds one, it will insert into the html a target attribute that tells the browser to open the link in a new window. Thus preventing your blog readers from leaving your blog and also helps in increasing your overall pageviews and bounce rate. We thought we shall also share the script with all of you.1. Open all external links in a new tab
2. Go to Blogger > Template
4. Click "Edit HTML"
Just above </head> paste the following
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script><script type='text/javascript'>$(document).ready(function() {$("a[href^='http://']").each($("a[href^='https://']").each(
function(){
if(this.href.indexOf(location.hostname) == -1) {
$(this).attr('target', '_blank');
}
}
);
function(){
if(this.href.indexOf(location.hostname) == -1) {
$(this).attr('target', '_blank');
}
}
);
});</script>
PS: Please do not add the red code if you already have jQuery library source code installed on your blog.
5. Save your template and you are all done!
Check your blog and click some external links to see it working just fine. :)
How it works? (Optional know-how)
I have added the code twice to check once for links starting with http:// and then for https://. Normally all bloggers blogs have hostnames starting with http:// without the http:// secure protocol. Therefore I added the second instance so that the script may work even for wordpress self hosted blogs.
The yellow highlighted part is where the script scans values inside href attributes and if the value is equal to a negative one (== -1), then this indicates that the hostname is an external domain.
Note: If you equate the href value to a positive one (==1) inside the conditional statement, thenall your internal links will start opening in new windows!
Once the condition is met, the script then inserts a target="_blank" attribute inside the hyperlink tag. That simple!
Hope this script proves helpful for most of you. It is extremely SEO friendly and works fine with all major browsers be it IE, webkit browsers or Mozilla.
Peace and blessings buddies! :)
