Title: external links not adding properly
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# external links not adding properly

 *  [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/)
 * hi, i am trying to add external link to my content, but its not adding properly,
   its always adding my website url before actual link, i am totally clueless about
   it, can some one help, i have added link in excel using instert hyperlink and
   in excel its properly inserted and checked, but in wp its converting. here is
   link to that post in question [](http://worthydomain.com/2015/04/07/pr-4-expired-domain-names/)

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 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986474)
 * [link](http://worthydomain.com/2015/04/07/pr-4-expired-domain-names/)
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986475)
 * try adding http:// before the external URL to fix this.
 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986476)
 * already added
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986479)
 * i see you missed one slash in http://
 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986480)
 * thats what i am saying, in excel sheet all is added as per url protoclol, but
   in wp its distorting, even in post editor i edited first two urls but result 
   is still same.
 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986481)
 * ok did it but still its a pain to edit all link manually. any other way.
 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986483)
 * you can try search and replace, click html tab in visual editor and copy all 
   html and then paste it in a text editor on your system.
 * replace
    [http://worthydomain.com/2015/04/07/pr-4-expired-domain-names/aff%20link%20http:/](http://worthydomain.com/2015/04/07/pr-4-expired-domain-names/aff%20link%20http:/)
 * with http://
 * and so on.
 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986487)
 * no help, such text is not availabel is seen in text editor, here is what it shows
 *     ```
       <td width="144"><a href="aff%20link%20http://www.namecheap.com/?aff=84016">420movieposters.com</a></td>
       <td width="64">com</td>
       <td width="64">15</td>
       <td width="64">4</td>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [neteater2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neteater2/)
 * (@neteater2)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986488)
 * thanks solved, i removed this aff link with blank.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-links-not-adding-properly/#post-5986488)
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