How to make Free Republic "STICKIER"... (Vanity)

2/3/2012 | By Lazamataz

[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.

[Lazamataz]

(And, as an aside, now, instead of writing the rather unimaginative "I'd hit it" when presented a pic of a pretty girl, I now send out a song from WLAZ)

[Lazamataz]

Let’s make Free Republic stickier!

[Lazamataz]

Free Republic is better when it’s sticky!

[Lazamataz]

Sticky advice from the terminally sticky Laz.

[RetroSexual]

A test: Would he hit it?

[Lazamataz]

Isn’t everything better when it’s sticky?

[Lazamataz]

Good job! You made Helen Thomas all sticky!

Um, ewwww.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Oh...you meant get FR more hits. Now how am I gonna get this coffee out of my monitor?

[humblegunner]

[Lazamataz]

And as a hat tip to you, I tagged the WEIRDSTUFF tag when posting. :)

[Lazamataz]

Coffee can be pretty sticky, you know. :)

[Lazamataz]

That’s kinda sexy.

[Mr. K]

Hit it, Laz!

[Smokin' Joe]

But I’m already using a GUI...

It doesn’t get much stickier than that.

[harpu]

Let me try that also...

[Lazamataz]

Ew! It’s all gooey and sticky!

[King Moonracer]

Hitting it and getting sticky kind of go hand and hand, er, so to speak.

[Lazamataz]

Bravo! Job well stickied-up!

[Lazamataz]

Well played. :)

[RetSignman]

[Lazamataz]

Hit it, Laz!

Only if it gets FR sticky!

[Lazamataz]

Nice job!

[PGalt]

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?

[Lazamataz]

Yeah neat, Laz! You’re some kinda MENSA FReak guru.

Well, I'll do until some kinda MENSA FReak guru comes along.

[Lazamataz]

Something sticky for ya....

[InterceptPoint]

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.

[trisham]

Good morning, friends. :)

click the pic

[Lazamataz]

Show that pretty wife of yours how to get stickier!

[Lazamataz]

All true, and it works in Microsoft Internet Exploder, too.

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. :)

[JmeDale]

just go to FR preference page and set it up. its a lot easier

[MrB]

Is there a way to cause an “open in new tab” from the HREF?

[Lazamataz]

FAIL

Lol

Least you could have done is use the new technique.

[Lazamataz]

Didn’t know it was a preference! You taught ME something!

[Lazamataz]

Target = _new

[Cringing Negativism Network]

My suggestion, more videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF5LqKj6MMU

[MrB]

Agenda: Grinding America Down

Cool! worked in the preview

[chopperman]

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.

[trisham]

I failed big, though! :)

[Lazamataz]

There’s a browser add on that does that.

[cizinec]

It worked on the wikipedia article, but not the youtube vids.

[Not The Other One]

Really? Cool. Firefox?

[Not The Other One]

Really? Cool. Firefox?

[JRios1968]

I’d definitely hit url’s like that

[raccoonradio]

You can also do this (at least in Firefox)

Right click on the link. Options include “Open link in new tab” and “Open link in new window”.

[nixonsnose]

You know, I’ve been “meaning to donate” for years. I was able to get on the monthly donor list in about 15 seconds.

[InterceptPoint]

Is there a way to cause an “open in new tab” from the HREF?

I don't actually know but the example links in the thread article open up for me as tabs and not new windows. Which is the behavior I prefer.

This works in Firefox and perhaps IE. In Firefox just go to the tools/options/tabs menu and you will see an option right at the top to open links that would normally open a new window in a new tab instead.

Try it.

[MrB]

Read on, McDuff, Laz answered it later.

[Lazamataz]

You know, I’ve been “meaning to donate” for years. I was able to get on the monthly donor list in about 15 seconds.

Thank you, nixonsnose!

[stickywillie]

weekly, it needs to be scrubbed and blow dried

[Lazamataz]