Good morning, friends. :)
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Posted on 02/03/2012 4:57:19 AM PST by Lazamataz
The way to make a website more popular is to increase it's 'stickiness', which is defined as staying on the website and giving it more hits. Here's ONE way to do that:
When you do an < A HREF > tag, make it a point to include the following text: TARGET="_blank">
This will launch a new window with your referenced link, and keep the FR window undisturbed. Allow me to demonstrate. Let's say someone posts a picture of a pretty girl, and I was tempted to post, "I'd hit it". I might, instead, post this:
< a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwYEGdKto8">Here's my answer.... this song goes out to YOU, good looking nympho at a Mensa meeting..... we all love you down at WLAZ....."You'll Never Find"..... the time is 6:44, and 48 degrees with clear skies at Hartfield airport.....All Hits, All The Time at WLAZ.....< /a>Note that the above does not have the TARGET="_blank" verbiage. Note it's behavior. It took you away from the Free Republic website, decreasing the 'stickiness'.
Now let us add the TARGET="_blank" verbiage....
< a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwYEGdKto8" TARGET="_blank" >Here's my answer.... this song goes out to YOU, good looking nympho at a Mensa meeting..... we all love you down at WLAZ....."You'll Never Find"..... the time is 6:44, and 48 degrees with clear skies at Hartfield airport.....All Hits, All The Time at WLAZ.....< /a>See the new behavior? You opened a new window. Neat, huh?
+1 Recommend.
Only if it gets FR sticky!
Nice job!
Yeah neat, Laz! You’re some kinda MENSA FReak guru. Very neat. (I did not know that) My son-in-law set me up with 2 monitors on my desk top. If I’m reading FR and want to listen to a youtube video while I’m FReeping, I drag the FR title bar with my mouse right over to the 2nd screen (monitor). Then I open up the internet again on my 1st monitor and go to youtube or google, or FR again to have a 2nd FR thread up on the other moniter.
How any of that is done, I have no idea...but I highly recommend it. You can double your FR reading pleasure...one screen for each eye reading 2 different threads. I only have to figure out how to process 2 different threads at the same time. Split personality maybe?
Well, I'll do until some kinda MENSA FReak guru comes along.
Something sticky for ya....
Unless I’m mistaken, you get the same result if you just use Firefox tabs:
Use Firefox Browser
Right click on any link
Select “Open in New Tab”
This is how I browse through FR threads. Works for me.
Good morning, friends. :)
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Show that pretty wife of yours how to get stickier!
However, this requires reactive behavior on the part of the browsee.
The technique I posted is proactive.
Conservatives are proactive. LIBERALS are reactive.
Oh yeah. I turned it into an indictment of political views. Oh, I went there. :)
Is there a way to cause an “open in new tab” from the HREF?
Lol
Least you could have done is use the new technique.
Didn’t know it was a preference! You taught ME something!
Target = _new
Cool! worked in the preview
I wish they’d nest the threads, like if I’m replying to #2, then put mine under #2 and indented. Its easier to follow side issues.
I failed big, though! :)
There’s a browser add on that does that.
It worked on the wikipedia article, but not the youtube vids.
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