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Is it correct to put a colon (:) before a website address?
02-19-2014, 12:32 PM
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Is it correct to put a colon (:) before a website address?
For example, "...create awareness and a fan base for the product using social media. Start by getting likes for the product's fan page: https://www.facebook.com/example"

You can see that just before giving the website I added a colon; is this a correct use of punctuation?
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02-19-2014, 12:33 PM
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Colons are to be used after sentences or independent clauses.

If the URL (which is grammatically a proper name) is part of the sentence, a colon shouldn't be there.
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02-19-2014, 12:43 PM
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No its use is incorrect.
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