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The Day The Links Died

September 14th, 2007 by


Link Week
As hard as we work to attract, build and encourage new links to our content, many of us (like me) make silly mistakes that are often overlooked. In August of 1997 I wrote an article that compared and contrasted several press release distribution services. It was titled E-mail
Press Release Service Comparison
and the filename was email-releases.html. I stopped maintaining that page years ago, and really haven’t thought much about it since then. I didn’t kill off the page or delete from my server, I just sort of abandoned it.

Over the weekend I was looking though my server logs. Like many people usually look only at which pages from my site are sending me the most traffic, which pages are attracting new links, etc. But on a whim I decided to look at the top 100 pages for all of 2007 to date, and low and behold, look what page was sitting pretty at #93:

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