Comments on: Newspaper sites start to scrap ‘no inbound links’ policies

By: The public sector doesn’t understand the web « Freelance Unbound

The public sector doesn’t understand the web « Freelance Unbound — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:42:10 +0000

[...] Apparently the papers have realised just how stupid (and unenforceable) that was and have recanted. [...]

By: quirkyalone

quirkyalone — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:16:44 +0000

>>> The “no linking” policy is clearly outdated

Moreover, it’s questionable how they would enforce it. In my website, I can link to whatever I can, it’s my freedom of expression.

By: Julie Delvaux

Julie Delvaux — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:21:17 +0000

It’s wonderful to read this article for two reasons. #1, it shows that there IS some power in Twitter, not just the noise. And #2, that some papers do recognise that it’s important to adjust their policies to the changing world. On my Arts&Culture blog I have often linked to the appropriate articles from many newspapers, not only British as a matter of fact, and never even had a thought that this could be treated as a breach of their T&Cs. The link was always credited, and two of the most read posts on the blog, one about Barbra Streisand’s concert and another about Slavoj Zizek lecture, both included several links to the nationals, e.g. The Independent. I also know that people have gone to visit the newspaper upon reading the blog post (this is what Paul Bradshaw notes). The “no linking” policy is clearly outdated, and whilst it is important to enforce the proper credit of the source, it is quite obsolete to prohibit linking altogether.

Julia (@mundusvivendi)

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:13:51 +0000

Thanks again Malcolm – whenever I have sessions with editors I go on and on about the importance of linking out – not just for editorial reasons but for hard commercial reasons too: Google likes pages with lots of links in them; and people who have been linked to are more likely to blog about you, creating more hits.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:10:49 +0000

Ooops! LOL