Interrupt Channel Entries tag

Question

I have a landing page with a bunch of entries, displayed from a good ol' channel entries tag pair. Now, I'd like to have a link to another page right in the middle of the entries (after 3 entries). The problem is that I can't just have two different tag sets, because I want the whole thing to be paginated. What can I do?

{exp:channel:entries channel="mychannel" limit="6" paginate="bottom"}
    <div class="block">
        {photo_matrix}<img src="{photo}" alt="{alt}">{/photo_matrix}
        {contact}{if name}<div class="hover"><div class="info"><span>Submitted By</span> {name}</div></div><!-- hover -->{/if}{/contact}
    </div><!-- block -->

    {my_pagination}{!-- (pagination snippet) --}

{/exp:channel:entries}

This is what I want:

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|


{          }
{   LINK   }
{          }

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|

 __________
|          |
|  Image   |
|__________|


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Answer 1

If you want only the first page in your pagination set to have the link you can use absolute_count conditionally.

{exp:channel:entries channel="mychannel" limit="6" paginate="bottom"}
    <div class="block">
        {photo_matrix}<img src="{photo}" alt="{alt}">{/photo_matrix}
        {contact}{if name}<div class="hover"><div class="info"><span>Submitted By</span> {name}</div></div><!-- hover -->{/if}{/contact}
    </div><!-- block -->

   {if absolute_count == "3"}
     Link goes here
   {/if}

    {my_pagination}{!-- (pagination snippet) --}

{/exp:channel:entries}

If however you want your subsequent pagination pages to have the link in position three as well then use count instead of absolute_count.