A look at links in weblogs

Found via referer logs: A look at links in weblogs, a small study looking at “a correlation between listing a site in a blogroll and linking to that site in weblog posts”.

Tasks:

• Experimented with some mapping tools.
• Processed three months of archives from five blogs and checked:
  • Most popular post links, are they in blogroll?
  • Blogroll links, are they mentioned in posts.

Pattern discovered (see also an exception)

These results were typical for 4 out of 5 blogs examined

• Post links least a few of the most linked to sites show up in the blogroll.
• Blogroll links the majority (60 to 90 percent) of blogroll links are linked to in postings.

This post also appears on channel weblog research

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/12/16.html#a868; comments are here.

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