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Tech Updates: Live Links to Etsy Shops Allowed!
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Story by kfarrell, marymary, TechUpdates
Published on June 17, 2008 in Etsy News 		Photo by ameliorate

We have recently implemented live linking to other Etsy urls within your profile, listing pages, and shop announcements. All you need to do is type the URL normally and it will automatically become a link. Etsy URLs look like this:

http://anyshopnamegoeshere.etsy.com
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7696745

After saving the changes, check to make sure the text link now appears in blue.  You can link to any page on Etsy. Feel free to go ahead and list the other shops you run, your Etsy Team's page, Storque articles, your top Etsy picks, any shops you swap links with...get creative! 

Thanks again for all your feedback and for helping make Etsy a better site! 



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adamsonart says:

I love love love this feature. It makes it easy for ME to zip between my two shops as well as my buyers. I love the way the color draws attention to the 2nd shop! Thanks soooo much.


6/17/08 at 4:27p.m.
blondechicken says:

I just now noticed this and I love it!


6/17/08 at 4:27p.m.
JustAnotherDay says:

cool! i noticed this in someone else's shop before! pretty nifty!


6/17/08 at 4:32p.m.
nanouke says:

This is great news!
Thank you!


6/17/08 at 5:05p.m.
vivametal says:

Should this be working everywhere by now? I have it working in some places and not in others, last I checked. (VERY useful idea btw!)


6/17/08 at 5:37p.m.
Etsy Admin Vanessa says:

hi vivametal, these links only work for pages on Etsy.com. If you have parenthesis around the link, you should add a space between them and the link, like this: ( http://www.etsy.com/storque )


6/17/08 at 6:31p.m.
raisinlike says:

Cool!

It works on the shop announcement, though, but not on the profile..


6/17/08 at 6:57p.m.
eclipse says:

raisinlike, the links in your profile are Flickr links, this will only work with Etsy links


6/17/08 at 7:46p.m.
alteredartichoke says:

Thank you so much for this feature! I've been wishing for this for a while!


6/17/08 at 8:15p.m.
excely says:

Thank you!


6/17/08 at 9:24p.m.
walkinthewoodsllc says:

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This is just GREAT!!!!!
:D


6/17/08 at 9:50p.m.
vaeda says:

great!
thank you!


6/18/08 at 12:19a.m.
FrucciDesign says:

thanks guys that's neat!


6/18/08 at 2:46a.m.
Sallyent says:

I love that this is now a feature
but unfortunately it doesn't work for me in either my profile or shop announcement.

Is there a tech thread somewhere explaining why it works for some people and not others?


6/18/08 at 3:55a.m.
PaperLeaf says:

Super! But it would be even better if we could link to external pages - ie flickr or our blogs!


6/18/08 at 5:59a.m.
MrYummy says:

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm SO excited, what a TREAT!!!


6/18/08 at 6:11a.m.
raisinlike says:

Ah! Thanks.


6/18/08 at 6:57a.m.
Florcita says:

this will come in handy! Great!


6/18/08 at 10:12a.m.
littlepurls says:

so why only etsy links?


6/18/08 at 4:41p.m.
Etsy Admin Vanessa says:

littlepurls, we are trying to prevent spam taking over the site!


6/18/08 at 5:14p.m.
curlyfrysc says:

Thank you! ;)


6/18/08 at 7:00p.m.
MayaBella says:

Very cool. I saw someone had this but thought they were just really tricky and sneaky. :)


6/19/08 at 4:27a.m.
fabricsupplies says:

Hi,

First off this is a great idea. I'm driving a ton of traffic from my fabric shop to my wife's handmade shop. Now I want more:)

Is it possible to have the display text differ than the linked text?

In my shop I offer fabric from many designers; I have more designers than categories. It would be great if I could have a link for each designer - where the link was a search within my shop for this designer. I prefer not to show the search link since it is very long and throws off the design of the page.

Thanks in advance,
Charlie

Example search link: http://www.etsy.com/search_results_sh...


6/24/08 at 10:26p.m.
breathofthedragon says:

Thanks for the update!

I can't wait to see if we ever get live links to non-Etsy URLs.... that'd be REALLY nice!


7/8/08 at 3:27p.m.
TeaguesBeads says:

this is great, thank you!


7/22/08 at 5:19p.m.
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