Case 3: An indirect network diagram

Case 3: An indirect network diagram for movie blogs
Standard network diagrams can only be useful for sets of web sites that interlink to some extent and this is rarely true for competing web sites, such as e-commerce web sites selling similar products. It can still be possible to create a network diagram showing the commonalities between these sites by counting a type of indirect connection known as a co-inlink (sometimes just called a colink). More specifically, a co-inlink between the two web sites is a web page in a third web site that links to both of them. Similar web sites seem to attract more co-inlinks than dissimilar web sites and so it is possible to draw a network diagram using lines to connect pairs of web sites that have co-inlinks. This is possible in Webometric Analyst by selecting the advanced option in the wizard and the network diagram with the co-inlinks option.