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From Our Mailbag
BY MARELYS VALENCIA
LINKS TO GRANMA
A
number of readers, including businesspeople,
officials from private and public enterprises, and
others who are simply starting their own web page
would like to foster exchanges of links with our
Internet site.
Why
this choice?
Interest in Cuban events is growing in spite of the
constant imperialist barrage against our country.
Perhaps that’s precisely why it is growing.
The
Granma daily and Granma International
web sites are the country’s most visited, and are
references that cannot be ignored by those who surf
the web in search of information on Cuba.
Between January 1-30, Granma International
had a total of 383,367 visits, with a daily average
of 13,000, and 329,251 visits were counted for
Granma. In both cases, the average visit lasted
13-14 minutes.
Between both web sites, total hits (all the elements
downloaded when a navigator enters the sites and
requests one of its pages) amounted to more than 18
million during January 1-30. Pages viewed by
visitors to Granma totaled more than
3,741,000 and those to Granma International
more than 1,920,000 (total pages viewed is a very
valuable indicator for Internet specialists).
These facts are striking when considering the number
of sites on the web – an estimated 5 million – and
therefore the number of information sources, as well
as the fact that the reader seeks to make the best
use of his or her time.
Let’s look at the popularity range. It’s believed
that the more a site is used as a reference for
other sites, the more likely is its prioritization
by web browsers when information is requested. That
is why it is so convenient to build a reference
point for political and cultural organizations,
social and economic institutions and the media to be
found on the web.
According to statistics on
www.trafficranking.com,
where the 900,000 most-read web sites appear, the
three top ranking Cuban sites are its site on health
issues, (www.infomed.sld.cu), Granma
International and Prensa Latina.
Regarding links, trafficranking.com shows Granma
International with 73,968 links and Granma
daily with more than 45,000, both of them trailing
the country’s homepage,
www.cubaweb.cu,
which has links on 125,000 web sites.
According to Cuban web specialist Adrián Coutín, the
author of numerous articles and the book
Arquitectura de información para sitios web. Guía
Práctica para usuarios (The Architecture of
information for web sites. A Practical Guide for
Users) published by Anaya Multimedia, the quantity
and quality of links is very important these days.
Systems detect the quality of links through a series
of coefficients that allow them to organize the
contents into their databases, so that when the user
asks for certain information, he or she reads the
best one first.
When there are thousands of sites related to the
same issue, readers navigate through those with
prestige on the web, with trustworthy, first-hand
information, which enjoy professionalism and
synthesis. These are motivating factors for
installing advertising banners on Granma
International’s on-line edition. These may be
negotiated with the paper’s management at the
following email address:
comercial@granmai.cip.cu.
MESSAGE RECEIVED
Santo Payano from the Dominican Republic says that
finding out about the
www.granma.cu
web site has been “very satisfying, given that
reading the press used to be nothing but a pastime,
given that all you see is petty politicking and the
indulgence of neoliberalism, which is killing
humanity.”
Germán Ricardo Peláez, a software architect from
Mexico, tells us that the information that we
published in the article “Prosecutor imposes
provisional custody on Mexican businessman” contains
an error, given that the businessman is from
Argentina. Germán, although the individual in
question is Argentine by birth, he has Mexican
citizenship, with which he entered Cuba more than
one month ago. Thanks anyway for your message and
keep following our articles.
A message from Italy reports that the
Italian-language edition of Los Disidentes en
Cuba (The Cuban Dissidents) by Rosa Miriam
Elizalde and Luis Báez, was launched by Edizione
Achab publishers.
Yeikoll Eduardo Fajardo, from Aragua, Venezuela, is
requesting information on postgraduate studies in
Cuban universities. I recommend you check out the
following website:
www.uh.cu.
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