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://