Comments on: Newspapers Who Don’t Link http://www.dotcult.com/newspapers-who-dont-link Ryan Jones Blogs About Internet Culture, Marketing, SEO, & Social Media Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: malcolm coles http://www.dotcult.com/newspapers-who-dont-link#comment-3692 malcolm coles Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:04:33 +0000 http://www.dotcult.com/newspapers-who-dont-link#comment-3692 It's not just that they don't link out ... In the UK, several have policies forbidding you from linking TO them (not that they could hope to enforce this - or want to. I suspect they'd never read their own terms & conditions): http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-no-linking-to-us/ But on the no linking out, I did a count recently of which major UK newspaper sites linked to google maps when google street view launched in the UK. Only 1 did (I won't add another link here in case it looks spammy - you'll find the post on my blog). It’s not just that they don’t link out … In the UK, several have policies forbidding you from linking TO them (not that they could hope to enforce this – or want to. I suspect they’d never read their own terms & conditions): http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/newspapers-no-linking-to-us/

But on the no linking out, I did a count recently of which major UK newspaper sites linked to google maps when google street view launched in the UK. Only 1 did (I won’t add another link here in case it looks spammy – you’ll find the post on my blog).

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