The Power of the Hyperlink, May 2016 Edition
Each month, we plan to share with you a cross-section of the websites that have referred traffic to our collections–collections that you help maintain and grow with your support of the LII. These are actual examples of how journalists, bloggers, and scads of folks on social media all amplify our efforts to provide free legal reference information by sharing our materials on the Internet. In turn, they magnify your support of those efforts.
In May, visitors from 16,392 different websites around the world followed links to our content. At the top of the list are the usual suspects like major social media sites and Wikipedia. While we love those sites–and their traffic, of course–we thought this sampling of other websites who sent traffic our way might interest you. Our focus this month: News outlets.
There’s the “fourth estate” folks:
- Linking to Federal Rules of Evidence 413 & 414
- Linking to a section of the Affordable Care Act
- Linking to a section of the Communications Decency Act
NY TImes (here, here, here, here, here, here & here)
- Linking mostly to U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
- Quoting and linking to our Wex definition of defamation
Then, there’s the little guys:
- Linking to a section of federal labor law
- Quoting the federal definition of an “open alcoholic beverage container”
- Linking to our Bulletin Preview of Foster v. Chatman
And, of course, there’s plenty of “new media” too:
- Quoting the four-factor test for fair use in federal copyright law
Huffington Post (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here)
- Linking mostly to U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Slate (there were 130 from slate.com, this one sent us the most traffic)
- A little bit of everything….
These were just some of our favorites. Feel free to let us know when you see the LII quoted by your favorite websites.
