Comments on: Online Participation 101: Linking is Good. Your URL is your Business Card http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/online-participation-101-linking-is-good-your-url-is-your-business-card/ Time-saving reflections on lifehacking, social media, and technology. Mon, 30 Dec 2013 18:20:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Technotheory.com - ROI of Social Media Event http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/online-participation-101-linking-is-good-your-url-is-your-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-18487 Technotheory.com - ROI of Social Media Event Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:24:33 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/online-participation-101-linking-is-good-your-url-is-your-business-card/#comment-18487 [...] My Intro to social media advice [...] [...] My Intro to social media advice [...]

]]> By: Kira http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/online-participation-101-linking-is-good-your-url-is-your-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-17108 Kira Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:36:16 +0000 http://www.technotheory.com/2008/01/online-participation-101-linking-is-good-your-url-is-your-business-card/#comment-17108 Amen. I run the Internet communications group at my organization, and people who work here are forever asking my permission for their associates to link to us. I don't know why! 1) They don't NEED permission! This has nothing to do with copyrights, which people get confused about. 2) Linking to us is GOOD! If they mischaracterize us in some way, that's bad, but these are partner organizations or allies in related fields...they're not going to trash us. 3) If we do get a "bad" link, we live. The Howard Stern show ran a super-prominent link to one of our sites that resulted in one of our highest-traffic days ever and a flood of nasty mail, but really, that was the worst that happened. And we got the SEO cred out of the deal anyway. Thanks for giving me a chance to rant. :-) Amen. I run the Internet communications group at my organization, and people who work here are forever asking my permission for their associates to link to us. I don’t know why!

1) They don’t NEED permission! This has nothing to do with copyrights, which people get confused about.

2) Linking to us is GOOD! If they mischaracterize us in some way, that’s bad, but these are partner organizations or allies in related fields…they’re not going to trash us.

3) If we do get a “bad” link, we live. The Howard Stern show ran a super-prominent link to one of our sites that resulted in one of our highest-traffic days ever and a flood of nasty mail, but really, that was the worst that happened. And we got the SEO cred out of the deal anyway.

Thanks for giving me a chance to rant. :-)

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