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Where Should You Put the Links? A Comparison of Four Locations (SURL) -- "However, there were significant subjective differences between the links arrangements favoring the embedded links. That is, participants indicated that they believed that embedding the links within a document made it easier to navigate, more easily recognize key information, promoted comprehension, and was easier to follow the main idea of the passages while searching for specific information." (Comments: Another awesome SURL research paper. The bottom line seems to be that you should put links in the body of your text when possible eventhough it doesn't actually change user performance.)

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