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Who Wrote the Book of (Link) Love?
April 30, 2008

Tonight, for the heck of it, I entered "digital library" (without quotes) into Google to see what came up. To my surprise, the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library was the top hit, above the Wikipedia "Digital library" entry, the ACM Digital Library, the California Digital Library, and all other digital library collections or projects. Where did they get the link love?

Well, it's only supposition at this point, but I have a couple guesses. One is that they have a ton of stuff there. For example, some wonderful free audio programming via iTunes as well as books digitized by Google. I can only imagine how many people link to the nypl.org domain to get some of this cool stuff. That's probably a lot of it right there. Getting folks to link to you goes a long way to getting you higher in the search results, particularly if those doing the linking also have link love.

Another is that they have an amazing group of people working behind the scenes to make the site even better. We could all learn a lot from the NYPL Labs, which is exactly what I plan on doing.

Posted by Roy Tennant on April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)