Inlinking on Mahalo is a very important part of learning to use Mahalo. It is something you will need to master if you are making and managing pages. Inlinking on Mahalo is using double brackets around your text in order to link it to another Mahalo page.

Inlinking is important because:

1. It gives your readers more Mahalo resources for more information on a topic they might be interested in.
2. Inlinking to another Mahalo page rather than outlinking to a page outside Mahalo keeps readers on Mahalo. The more time they spend on Mahalo, the more of a trusted resource Mahalo will become.

Inlinking is easy. All you need to do is put double brackets around your text. Here is an example:

Aim for 1 inlink per 100 words. Make sure that the page you are inlinking to exists on Mahalo. Only inlink to pages that are closely related to the page you are writing.

People Names and Band Names:
Examples:
[[Wayne Gretzky]] Wayne Gretzky
[[Princess Diana]] Princess Diana
[[Britney Spears]] Britney Spears
[[Linkin Park]] Linkin Park

Location Names:
Examples:
[[London England|London, England]] London, England
[[Paris France|Paris, France]] Paris, France
[[Cleveland OH|Cleveland, OH]] Cleveland, OH

Note that if you need to have the text display with a comma or any other difference from how the page is actually titled, then you can put the page title first, and the way you want your text to display second, with a pipe | in between them.

Dates and Years:
Examples:
[[2008]] 2008
[[September 12]], [[2009]] September 12, 2009

Note that the date and the year are inlinked separately.

Brand or Product Names:
Examples:
[[Nintendo Wii]] Nintendo Wii
[[Chef Boyardee]] Chef Boyardee
[[Microsoft Windows]] Microsoft Windows

Entertainment Titles, including music albums, TV shows, movies, video games, etc. Note that these are also put in italics, by adding two apostrophes before and after the inlinking brackets.
Examples:
''[[Abbey Road]]'' Abbey Road
''[[Gossip Girl]]'' Gossip Girl
''[[Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare]]'' Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare
''[[Lord of the Rings The Two Towers|Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Diseases and Conditions:
Examples:
[[Cancer]] Cancer
[[Cerebral Palsy]] Cerebral Palsy
[[Chicken Pox]] Chicken Pox

Holidays:
Examples:
[[Christmas 2009]] Christmas 2009
[[Thanksgiving]] Thanksgiving

Remember to only inlink a term or phrase once per page, the first time it is used on the page.

Do not inlink the same term more than once. Only inlink a term the first time you use it on the page.

Do not inlink symbols such as @ % $ #

The symbol & can be inlinked on topic pages, if it is in the title, but it cannot be inlinked in Mahalo Answers.

At times, you may want to actually link to a page but you want the text to show up a bit differently because it doesn't fit the sentence. Here is an example of how to do just that:

(this image courtesy of the How to Write a Guide Note page.)