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April 19, 2007

Technorati Favorites Exchange

Are you a blogger? If so, read on:

I am exchanging Technorati Favorites with other bloggers. This is something I learned about from Daryl W.T. Lau and Dosh Dosh.

The goal of the exchange is to help one another up toward the top-100 favorited blogs list at Technorati. This is an experiment to see what effects it has on overall blog traffic and popularity. I’m hoping, by doing this, to help other people who have web design or SEO blogs, but if you have any other type of blog you can join in too.

Here’s the rules of the exchange:

1. Click on this link and add me as your favorite at Technorati: Favorite Klamath Design

2. Leave a comment to this post telling me you favorited me. And leave me a link like the one above so I can favorite your blog; it looks like this: http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.YourBlogsURL.com

3. I will favorite your blog, and everyone who comes after can favorite it too.

Also if you want to host a favorites exchange in your blog, post something about it there and link to this posting. When I notice your post from trackbacks or Technorati, I’ll add a link to this posting, to your blog and link exchange post.

Have fun with it.

Here are some other Techno-Fave exchange postings. You can favorite them, and go to their exchange postings and ask them to favorite you back:

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Home Based Business - Add To Favorites
Genius Type - Add To Favorites
Sexy in Red - Add To Favorites
Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil - Add To Favorites
BlogOp - Add To Favorites
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TechJunction - Add To Favorites
Random Expressions - Add To Favorites
shaarique.com - Add To Favorites
Life in the Fast lane - Add To Favorites
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Teknobites - Add To Favorites
Life Rocks 2.0 - Add To Favorites

More to be added soon…

Filed under: SEO, Photography, Blogging, Link Strategies, Technorati, Favorites, Free Photo, Nature Photo, Royalty Free, Stock Photo — Linda @ 8:22 am

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April 18, 2007

Opening Links In A New Browser Window Tab

If you’ve browsed the web for long, I’m sure you’ve come across sites where, when you click on links, a new browser window opens. If you want an example try this link: Blog Top Sites.

This is done by adding the attribute, target=”_blank”, to the link anchor tag.

How do you feel about having a site designer choose to force you to open a new browser window?

Lots of people don’t like this at all, and in fact I’ve seen it featured in lists of the most annoying things people have seen in web design, along with animated graphics and being caught inside someone’s frames. Many if not most people do not like having a site force the opening of a new browser window. It is intrusive.

Now, with the tabbed browsing used in Firefox and Internet Explorer v.7, I too find it annoying because I like to keep all my sites opened in tabs, in one browser window.

There’s a simple way to get around these types of links. If you realize you’re at a site that is opening browser windows you don’t want, just right-click on the mouse, right over the link you want to explore, and choose “open in new tab”. Voila! No more browser windows opening!

This tip is also very helpful for sites that use frames and force you to stay inside their frames while you explore other sites they’ve linked to. About.Com does this, though it also gives an option to click to get rid of their frame at the top of the page, so it is much better than many other framed sites we’ve seen. In the future if you find you’re at a site that keeps a frame open on the new site you want to see, just hit your back-arrow, and then right-click on the link for the new site you want to see, choosing “open in new tab’.