{"id":292,"date":"2003-09-19T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:43:09","slug":"292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/19\/292\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Linking<\/a> Is Not Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Undoubtedly, some of you have noticed how I have often linked, often gratuitously, to Instapundit<\/a> in my posts. For no apparent reason, some posts<\/a> include the www.instapundit.com<\/a> URL in them.<\/p>\n

I admit I was trying to use you, dear reader, in my own foolish drive for recognition, or at least a perfunctory glance from Professor Reynolds<\/a>. You see, I hoped you might see that link<\/a> and click it, which would put my own URL briefly in the referrer logs at Instapundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If enough you visited that site<\/a>, perhaps He<\/a> would see my URL in the referrer logs and would pop by. Maybe He<\/a> would link to me, or maybe The Professor<\/a> and I would become fast friends. Maybe He<\/a> would let me drive his Mazda, and I would let him play Arkanoid.<\/p>\n

But my ruse has become transparent to you, discriminating reader, for the frequency of links to Instapundit<\/a> are almost as frequent as links to Amazon<\/a>, Internet Movie Database<\/a>, and my beautiful wife<\/a>. I won’t bother you any more with the gratuitous links<\/a> to Instapundit<\/a> anymore, because I know you’ll see through them, and I don’t want to lose any more of your respect.<\/p>\n

Besides, I realize that those of you who frequent blogs have already read Instapundit<\/a> before you show up here.<\/p>\n

However, I hope you will forgive me if I link to something The Professor<\/a> says, perhaps excerpted and followed by a simple “Heh.” or “Indeed.” Please understand this is not gratuitous linking<\/a> or even pale imitating, but rather homage and fair use.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Were I not so discouraged, I would try to follow some of Wizbang’s advice<\/a> for triggering an Instalanche. But I am too discouraged.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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