What's the difference between a URL and a link?

[ruhikhan]

Hello friends,

What's the difference between a URL and a link?

[EmilyPete]

Hyperlinks and URLs. A hyperlink is a certain kind of "clickable" text or graphic, which the Web browser generally responds by loading a new Web page. A uniform resource locator (URL) is a special address that uniquely identifies a Web page on the Web.

[bonnieshona]

A URL is an address, like www.eshilon.com. A link (also known as "anchor text") is a line of text that, when clicked, takes a person to the URL.

So a link is the text you click and a URL is the place you go to.

Links can also be images. For example, you might click the "Yahoo! Answers" logo at the top of this page, and it will take you to the URL answers.yahoo.com.

URLs typically start with http://

[sinelogixtech]

Links are not the same as URLs, though sometimes people say "link" when they mean "URL." For example, "Type the link into your web browser." A link is a snippet of text that has been associated with a URL. If you click on that text you are brought to the page that the URL points to.

[lishmalinyjames]

Links are not the same as URLs, though sometimes people say "link" when they mean "URL." For example, "Type the link into your web browser." A link is a snippet of text that has been associated with a URL. If you click on that text you are brought to the page that the URL points to.

[techinfo]

The difference between link and URL is that link takes the user from one address to another, while URL is the address denoted by the link. Links do not follow any protocol, while URLs follow protocols, such as HTTP,HTTPS , etc.

[RH-Calvin]

A link is the URL that is built using an anchor text for generating traffic to your website.

[Akshay_M]

The main difference between link and URL is that link takes the user from one address to a different , while URL is that the address denoted by the link. Links don't follow any protocol, while URLs follow protocols, like HTTP, FTP, etc. Links don't have a particular syntax, while URLs do.

[davidsmith]

Link - The user is connected to a web address via a link.
URL - Each webpage has a unique address, which is referred to as a URL. (Uniform Resource Locator) is an acronym meaning "universal resource locator."

[Lucifer12]

URL stands for uniform resources locator, which specifies the separate addresses, and the link is called a Hyperlink. It is the form of anchor text, images, and many others. When you click on the link, it will redirect you to a specific URL page because the link has an address of another URL.

URL is the data embedded in the preferred resource link, and the link is a relative URL path. It is the way to reach the resource.