Saturday, March 19th, 2005, 3:47 am
Forbidden Links
Filed under: Eric Meyer pointed out the strange policies that some corporations instate:
We reserve the right to require you to remove links to the Site, in our sole discretion.
Linking to any page of the Site other than to the homepage is strictly prohibited in the absence of a separate linking agreement with Orbitz.
About a month ago I heard that Sainsbury’s require you to apply in order to get a permission to link. The only worry one can think of them having is a link name with an unflattering title, which then associates them with inadequate words in search engines. Try for example, ‘f**kwit’ in Google and the first result (as of the time of writing) will be John Prescott, the British Deputy Prime Minister. Ironically enough, the top SERP for this site is Teresa May, the Tory MP, though most visitors are after a porn star with the same name.
March 27th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
I think this is not very intelligent, you normally get great links when having great content.. why should I say “Don’T link” if im afraid of a bombing in Google or any other engine?
Use links for the good;)
Greetings
David