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Why are hyperlinks to business Websites created? A content analysis
Authors
Y. Gao
M. Kipp
L. Vaughan
Publication date
1 January 2006
Publisher
Scholarship@Western
Abstract
Motivations for the creation of hyperlinks to business sites were analyzed through a content analysis approach. Links to 280 North American IT companies (71 Canadian companies and 209 U.S. companies) were searched through Yahoo!. Then a random sample of 808 links was taken from the links retrieved. The content as well as the context of each link was manually examined to determine why the link was created. The country location and the type of the site where the link came from were also identified. The study found that most links were created for business purposes confirming findings from early quantitative studies that links contain useful business information. Links to competitors were extremely rare but competitors were often co-linked, suggesting that co-link analysis is the direction to pursue for information on competitive intelligence. Copyright © 2006 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. All rights reserved
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