please empty your brain below
I tend to read blogs with breakfast - so I'm just there to catch up in what is a limited time available. Stopping to read links is something that I do only if the link has a particular interest.

martin | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 11:47 a.m. | #

Ooohh so you're watching us watching you then....spooky.

Anyway I only clicked on the link to Tom's quiz from your site because it was easier than calling up my Random Reality "favorite" [sic], as I tend to visit both in succession at lunchtime.

*Blows raspberry and wishes she wasn't being analysed*

verity74 | 13.03.05 - 12:22 p.m. | #

track and trace? have you ever worked for the post office, dg?

g-r

gimmerugga | 13.03.05 - 12:45 p.m. | #

Does it still count as a "click" if you right-click->open in new window? I do that on most links out of habit. And I at least hover over them to see what they are, even if I don't follow them...

dg writes: I've just checked, and right-click->open in new window still counts.

Chz | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 12:59 p.m. | #

..and we'll be interested to see whether the MyBlogLog link fared better than your average link.

Well I will be anyway

dg writes: it's not faring any better at all, at the moment

NiC | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 1:29 p.m. | #

I second the above. It'll be interesting to see if bold links are more popular, but then I suspect you did that on purpose.

Gary Netherton | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 1:48 p.m. | #

Now I feel much better about very rarely providing any links. They're so last year, dahlings.

Vaughan | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 1:53 p.m. | #

Could be as well that your readers have already read some of the pages you are linking to or from a quick hover see the address and either plan to get back to it at a later date or know that the chances are the link will be filtered if reading from work.

stroppycow | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 2:06 p.m. | #

Personally, I usually go to DG's blog to read what he says rather than visit his links. It's a sort of an end in itself rather than a stopping off point before somewhere else. Erm, a bit like Mill Hill East, if that makes any sense.

quin | Homepage | 13.03.05 - 6:23 p.m. | #

I agree with the above anyway i clicked on a couple just to prove his point

Rev | 13.03.05 - 8:17 p.m. | #

Well, I like your links, even if other people are too busy! Thank you for all the trouble you take.

Esme | 13.03.05 - 9:54 p.m. | #

Conclusion:

h) Writing a post about clicking on links makes you click on links more often

Evidence: Here's yesterday's Top 3 most clicked-on links:

1) appropriate (25 clicks)
2) MyBlogLog.com (21 clicks)
3) interesting (19 clicks)

...which are also the three most-clicked-on links of the whole of last week.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 14.03.05 - 7:18 a.m. | #

what are your best and worst links overall (since you started keeping a record of that kind of thing)?

dg writes: the three links listed above are also the Top 3 of the whole of last week

Ant | Homepage | 14.03.05 - 1:19 p.m. | #

of course worse could mean a whole slew of zero-rated links... maybe just stick with the best.

Ant | Homepage | 14.03.05 - 1:20 p.m. | #

I appreciate your linking style; I usually treat this sort of links in the same manner as citations/footnotes in academic works: providing source or supplementary material to the main text. It's good to have them around in case the reader is especially interested in a specific point you've brought up (whether to dispute it, or just to learn more), but I don't see the links as a necessary path. Your entries themselves are the most interesting part as far as my reading is concerned.

The Dunce | Homepage | 14.03.05 - 2:08 p.m. | #

You absolutely have to buy that outfit for the next blogmeet you go on

(See, I clicked a link)

Tony | Homepage | 14.03.05 - 5:02 p.m. | #

You have to allow for the outlier like me - missed the site for a few days and am playing catchup. Hence, I scrolled down the page and cliked links!!!

Michael | 16.03.05 - 8:35 a.m. | #

...not to mention the paranoids who run with Javascript turned off.

Old Grouch | 17.03.05 - 6:10 p.m. | #











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