Liven up your links!

Locating a URL

Are you wondering why your links are not “live” like the ones you see all over the internet in articles, social network posts etc.?

The answer is simple: you did not use an  actual Uniform Resource Locator, more commonly known as a URL and although a simple www.expertbusinesspartners.com entry will work in some environments, many platforms (like Facebook and Twitter)  will not make the site name live without an actual URL.

So what is a URL? According to the WEPOPEDIA, it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.  The first part of the address is called a protocol identifier and it indicates what protocol to use, and the second part is called a resource name and it specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located. The protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a colon and two forward slashes.”

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