Why does my blog url show up when I try to link something?

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  kristinblakely · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 12:43 pm

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  Every time I try to insert a link in to my blog and then publish my blog, I realize – after going to view the blog – that when I click on the link, my blog url shows up BEFORE the link I have added.

  For instance:

  Say I add a link to my pinterest site – http://www.pinterest.com/kristinblakely

  When I click on it from my blog it goes to a nonexistent site:

  http://www.creativintage.wordpress.com/www.pinterest.com/kristinblakely

  And it does this for EVERY link I add.

  Please help.
  Blog url: http://creativintage.wordpress.com/

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 2:07 pm

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  Based on your description, it sounds like you are adding links like this:

  www.pinterest.com/kristinblakely

  But the link has to start with http:// when you add it:

  http://www.pinterest.com/kristinblakely

  Can you try one more time and make sure you have http:// at the beginning of the URL when you add the link?

  [EDIT: The link examples above don’t look right to me. I’m looking into why they’re getting modified even after I used backticks to post code examples. The first one should start with www and the second should start with http:// ]

  [EDIT: Fixed now. :) ]

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  kristinblakely · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 3:19 pm

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  That works! Thanks!