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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 269
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 04:36 pm: | 
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I know from the number of clicks generated by different type of articles in my eNewsletter that best of lists are always popular.
In the last eNewsletter (http://aalbc.com/news_sept2005.htm) I included a link to a web page described as the The Best of The Black Book Web Sites (http://aalbc.com/otherwebsites.htm). The goal of this web page was to identify the most popular Black book web sites and rank them in terms of volume of traffic, internet presence, popularity and other non-subjective and quantifiable characteristics. This link was clicked twice as frequently and the 2nd most popular link -- rarely is a link so overwhelmingly popular.
I was pleased to find, though not surprised, that AALBC.com ranked 1st in all categories except one: Length of time on-line. Our friends at Mosaicbooks.com holds the distinction of being the oldest, continuously running web site dedicated to Black books.
One of my goals for building this page was to use it as a tool to help explain the benefits of advertising on the AALBC.com web site. However an additional benefit is that the resulting list is a great list of web of black owned web sites, doing the hard and necessary work of promoting our literature. I update this page periodically (most recently October 15th 2005) by adding newly discovered sites or sites that have been climbing in the traffic rankings and removing sites whose traffic has fallen off.
So if you are looking for a good place to learn about books by and about Black people, the web sites listed on this page http://aalbc.com/otherwebsites.htm would be a good place to begin.
Please, if you know of a website that is missing I will run the numbers and rank the site accordingly. My goal is not to list every site that in existence, but to isolate the most frequently visited and by extension the best of those in the category.
Peace
p.s.
This is my frist post since July and I'm sure the longer period of time I've gone without making post I must say that I miss participating and reading some of the craziest and/or the most sublime material on-line. I've turned into a periodic lurker (oh, the shame!).
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1532
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 01:20 pm: |
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Great post. Very informative.
Keep doing features like this |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 270
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2005 - 10:19 pm: |
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Chris I'm glad you found the page informative. I found it informative too while doing the research. I came across many more web sites dedicated to black books than I actually expected. Most are black book club web sites -- some very well done.
There are a great number of author web sites and blogs. It is encouraging to see more of us contributing to cyberspace.
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