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Christine was interested to hear me say that sending people away made them come back to your blog

Christine was interested to hear me say that sending people away made them come back to your blog
I don't have any stats to back up the claim, but links are golden in blogs, and I wanted to make sure that new bloggers came away with the idea that it was normal to link to others. [link]

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Submitted by Jan Karlsbjerg on February 25th, 2008 at 2:39 AM #

Justin Hall (http://www.links.net/) said it when the WWW was very young: Most sites try to keep people on the site (by opening links in other windows, etc.), but he intentionally tries (tried) to send people away, make it an interesting challenge for the reader to keep coming back.

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Submitted by Richard on February 25th, 2008 at 1:17 PM #

I got the quote/idea from Dave Winer, and the quote "links are first class citizens on web pages" from Roland, who I think got it from W3.org? But yes, Justin is a pioneer who early on understood to make people stay you send them away.