I agree. One of the characteristics of a good article is that often it will have many different links to good quality content that the reader will want to look at.

IMO it is annoying to click on a link and have it open in the same window because then I have to hit the back button to finish reading the oroginal article if I even remember to do that (let alone remember if the 2nd article links off to a 3rd article and so on and so forth).

I will often just hold down the Ctrl key when I click on a link so that the link will open in a new tab in FF rather than wait and see if the site owner put a target=”_blank” in there for me.

I think the quality is amazing and I’m very happy with the interface.

Again great factor to point out Patrick!

I have added the below to my post as well.

Why I like this personally as a reader…
When I go to a site and click on a link that opens up on the same page instead of in a new window I, more often than not, wind up not going back to the original site I started at. This will especially happen if I get hooked into what I’m reading about and have to click through several pages. When I’m done reading the extra pages I normally wind up closing out the window. If I remember to, I will type in the original site address and start over. Other times I just don’t feel like going through the hassle of starting over, so I don’t. This means the original site I started out at just lost me – not forever, but for that time.

When I go to a site that allows me to click on a link that opens up a separate window, I always get back to the original site. The original site is left open. You only have to close out the extra window. I go right back to what I was originally doing because it’s still right there in my face.

So for me, I prefer new sites and links opening in a new window.

There are +10 years it’s well known “user friendly” sites don’t automaticaly open links in a new window. In fact it’s very annoying, and myself I don’t use to browse such sites nor to return, and I am not alone.

The user can use the contextual memnu to open a link in a new window but you must not force to open windows…

In the past I used to say, if Google, Yahoo, … don’t use such practices then probably it’s because it’s not the better way to proceed. That’s also the case with links opening in new window.

To finish I will add that popup blockers use to even block links opening in a new window by a user click when the computer is running for many hours and that it’s starting to be short in free RAM.

What I do instead is pick a handful of products and make those links of my own. Example would be the word hosting or host. Every time those words are used I will put in my affiliate link for hostgator. One I’ll make more money and two I control how it shows.

They even have a plug-in that will do this very thing for you automatically. It does cost $97 though so I save the money and do it manually. Maybe if it was $47 I’d use it

Have to see how it all pans out. Additional revenue online is needed

I never heard of the Vimeo branding removal. Really cool… have to check that out for sure.