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What’s My Link?

Tony Hammond – 2007 February 05

In Linking

Simon Willison has a great piece here about disambiguating URLs. Best practice on creating and publishing URLs is obviously something of interest to any publisher. See this excerpt from Simon’s post:

_“Here’s a random example, plucked from today’s del.icio.us popular. convinceme.net is a new online debating site (tag clouds, gradient fills, rounded corners). It’s listed in del.icio.us a total of four times!

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070203050251/http://www.convinceme.net/ has 36 saves

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070202182238/http://www.convinceme.net/index.php has 148 saves

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070203050251/http://www.convinceme.net/ has 211 saves

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070202182238/http://www.convinceme.net/index.php has 38 saves

Combined that’s 433 saves; much more impressive, and more likely to end up at the top of a social sharing sites.”_