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The page titled "Thruhiking Papers, The", at
http://www.circumtech.com/outdoors/thruhikingpapers/, was selected
as a Links2Go "Key Resource" in the Appalachian Trail topic, at
http://www.links2go.com/topic/Appalachian_Trail.

o How your page was selected

Each quarter, Links2Go samples millions of web pages to determine
which pages are most heavily cited by web pages authors, such
as yourself. The most popular pages are downloaded and automatically
categorized by topic. At most 50 of the pages related to a topic
are selected as "Key Resources." Out of 50 pages selected as Key
Resources for the Appalachian Trail topic, your page ranked 30th.
For topics like Music, where there are a large number of interested
authors and related pages, it is harder to achieve selection as
a Key Resource than for a special-interest topic, such as Quantum
Physics.

The Links2Go Key Resource award differs from other awards in two
important ways. First, it is objective. Most awards rely on hand
selection by one or more "experts," many of whom have only looked
at tens or hundreds of thousands of pages in bestowing their awards.
Selection for these awards means no more than that one person,
somewhere, noticed your page and liked it enough to select it.
The Key Resource award, on the other hand, is based on an analysis
of millions of web pages. Any group or organization who conducts
a similar analysis will arrive at similar conclusions. When Links2Go
says your page is a Key Resource, we mean that your page is one
of the most relevant pages related to a particular topic on the
web today, using an objective statistical measure applied to an
extremely large data set.

Second, the Key Resource award is exclusive. We get literally
hundreds of people requesting that their page be added to one
or more topics per week. All of these requests are denied. The
only way to get listed as a Key Resource is to achieve enough
popularity for our analysis to select your pages automatically.
We do not accept fees, offers of link exchanges, free advertising,
or bartered livestock as inducements to add new sites to our lists.
Fewer than one page in one thousand will ever be selected as a
Key Resource.

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