Tag Archives: links
How to see what people are linking to on Twitter
One of the most useful aspects of Twitter for me is following the links people post to their blogs and things they've been reading/watching. There's always good stuff in there. But Twitter's like a 24-hour water cooler - people drift in for a while then move on and you never know who's going to be there when you show up nor what you've missed in the meantime. Enter Twitturly, which lets you see what people have been linking to.
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A few words on the Herald’s little blue box
One of the things I like about nzherald.co.nz is the blue tinted panel that appears in story pages and lists other headlines you can click directly through to. I like it because I can work my way through a dozen stories without having to click back to the homepage or section page in between each one - something that drives me nuts on other news sites.
Linking out ‘works’ for news sites
Speaking of links, this is a nice little piece from a guy called David Eaves who has an SEO company in the UK. I won't pretend to be able to recreate the maths, but in essence he collected a few vital statistics for large mainstream websites - including incoming and outgoing links - threw them into an Excel spreadsheet and came up with a chart...
Lack of links one reason for lukewarm
hyperlocal experiment
For those keeping an eye on the success or otherwise of hyperlocal websites, this is worth a read. It's a Wall Street Journal piece about the less-than-stellar debut of a Washington Post hyperlocal site called LoudounExtra.com.
Link wrap: semantic BBC and linking out