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Proof Links Revive the Dead!

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I now have proof that links can revive the dead! You all remember Arnold right? No… ? Well, Arnold was the good lad who wrote for WebDevNotes before my grand arrival! Unfortunately, Arnold was attacked by a gopher and assumed dead until yesterday when I made a startling discovery! Arnold is alive and well, or possibly haunting my blog thanks to the breath of live bestowed upon him by a link!

Every now and then I make my readers ask themselves an important question; WHAT THE HECK IS HE TALKING ABOUT? Well let me explain…

With the exception of the famously inexplicable phpBB post by Arnold which constantly generates traffic, the rest of his articles have been buried worse than a SEO article on Digg.

So, imagine my surprise when suddenly a post by Arnold titled, “IE7 Internet Explorer 7″ made it’s way to the near top of my most visited pages thus far for August! I know there is no way Internet Explorer is getting any more popular, so that cannot explain the sudden surge in page views. Ghosts are usually the next best logical solution for the inexplicable, but in this particular case I think it is safe to blame a bug…!

The bug responsible for the sudden rise in popularity of a post I won’t even dare link to again in this post is the one I have named “Channelcyclopsis”. Channelcyclopsis is a rare bug that occasionally attacks the “Hot off the Press” and “New Media, Web 2.0 Channel Posts” menus on the right-hand side of the site. During the latests Channelcyclopsis attack, these menus went bonkers! For a while they displayed broken links, then later showed the same very very old posts after 451 Press technicians set mouse traps to catch the villain bug but only managed to snap off one of it’s seven tails.

Thankfully a round of pesticide spraying later wounded the bug whom reportedly ran off into the depths of our servers hopefully never to be seen again. Hmmm.. that reminds me of The Pesticide Paradox!

Well anyways, during the Channelcyclopsis attack, Arnolds post was shown as a link in the “New Media, Web 2.0 Channel Posts” menu for about one week. During this time, people clicked and the once upon a time dead article rose to the top of the charts! That my friends is the power of the link! Even with a topic as unpopular as Internet Explorer, the post was able to have another moment of fame and glory on Web Dev Notes.

Can you harness the power of the link? If so, use it for good, not evil like Channelcyclopsis, whom forced us to read about IE7!


Posted in Blogging Tips on February 4th, 2008

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