After a year and a half, Google Lab’s Related Links experiment has come to an end and will shut down on July 25th.
Related Links was a tool to help webmasters increase page views. Given your site’s page, Related Links could choose the most related pages from within your site and display them in a gadget. You could embed this in your webpage to help visitors reach other pages easily. Related Links also suggested searches that users could run within your site to find more related pages.
It’s sad to see it go. If you are currently using it, check-out these details:
If you are using Related Links, you’ll want to pull the JavaScript code from your pages, as not to be effected by the July 25th shutdown.
This is the JavaScript code you’ll want to pull:
<div id="relatedlinks_container_div"></div> <script language=javascript defer> var escFun = window.encodeURIComponent ? window.encodeURIComponent : escape; var relatedlinks_js = document.createElement("script"); relatedlinks_js.setAttribute("charset", "utf-8"); relatedlinks_js.src = "http://relatedlinks.googlelabs.com/client/ client.js?url=" + escFun(document.URL) + "&referrer=" + escFun(document.referrer) + "&relatedlinks_id=Unique_ID&title=" + escFun(document.title); document.getElementsByTagName("head") [0].appendChild(relatedlinks_js); </script>
Good-bye Related Links.
It’s been fun.
[via Google Related Links]
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