Serendipitous Web Linking Tools

I have been toying with a few Serendipitous Web Tools that work on automatically creating a thick network of links. The main problem with the Serendipitous Web is that when you stumble across a useful resource you only have access to sites that page links to i.e. you can only see the 'downstream' links. However, a lot of useful resources might be pointing into this and, like a salmon swimming upstream to its spawning grounds, it it would be very useful to us to find a way to go against the usual current and discover these other pages. It is hoped that Serendipitous Web Linking Tools will help with this 'upstreaming'.

This is not to say that these Serendipitous Web Linking Tools are useful only to people who serendipitously stumble across a page they are also useful to your other visitors - the external linking tools help them discover other related pages and the internal linking tools produce a dense web of connected pages (as you can never predict what people might find useful you are offering them a range of potential possibilities to choose from).

Current tools include:
U Ranker - this currently monitors incoming traffic (and rankings) from Google.
U Linker - this monitors incoming links to the site - when I rename the Wicklinks I'll probably also change this to Extra Linker.
Wicklinks - for monitoring the internal links between sites. This is proof that this can work and I plan to extend this to monitoring all internal links on a site and I aim to call it something like Intra Linker.

Its also worth mentioning that none of this is very new as Blogs have used things like trackback links for a while. What I do hope is that by using the Serendipitous Web it might focus me on useful tools and applications.

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