links for 2007-10-05

  • Our response to Marketing Sherpa’s recent test of click-through rates for anchor text links caused some healthy debate among people who, for the most part, seem to agree with each other.
  • Contests are extremely popular in the blogosphere right now. A lot of bloggers are using them to reward their readers, gain new subscribers, improve the community environment of the blog, and so on.
    (tags: blog contest)
  • If you’re a new or longtime user of FeedBurner FeedSmith — our plugin for WordPress that helps ensure you count all of your blog’s feed traffic through FeedBurner — there is a recommended security-related update to this plugin for you to download.
  • Get public transit directions on Google Maps.
  • It’s been a long wait for developments in the National Federation for the Blind (NFB) vs. Target accessibility row (A 13-month wait, in fact). However, the LA Times reports that, on Tuesday this week, Target finally lost its bid to dismiss the NFB’s lawsu
  • As I noted in a previous post, forecasts say holiday spending will be down, except online. The US housing market is affecting advertising spend too. But again, online advertising is the bright spot. This is according to ZenithOptimedia.