Requests for Links to my page

Scott Bryce wrote:

> I don't think it is possible to require everyone who links to you to
> have your permission to do so. It would be silly to take legal action
> against people who link to you, since inbound links
I can imagine a couple of situations that I would object to. One would
be if the site linking to me was offensive or for some reason might
affect my standing with Google, Yahoo or others (probably would require
many sites). I can imagine some people trying to sabotage their
competition by putting them in link farms or spamming in their name to
draw the wrath of the search engine gods.

Another does not really pertain to me but the guy who has the Google
Image rip-off site is stealing people's images to display on his own
site and also causing a drain on their bandwidth.

I have been made aware of one site in my industry that requires people
to fill out a form --www.bicgraphics.com.

> your ranking in Google, and I recall from an earlier thread that you are
> trying to improve your ranking.

That is correct. I am mostly curious about this question.

Thanks, for the feedback.
Ross
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MagnetDogWM wrote:

> I can imagine a couple of situations that I would object to. One would
> be if the site linking to me was offensive or for some reason might
> affect my standing with Google, Yahoo or others (probably would require
> many sites).

I don't think there is anything you can do to prevent this.

> I can imagine some people trying to sabotage their
> competition by putting them in link farms or spamming in their name to
> draw the wrath of the search engine gods.

I can't imagine why anyone would take up their valuable time to do such
a thing, but I suppose it it possible.

> Another does not really pertain to me but the guy who has the Google
> Image rip-off site is stealing people's images to display on his own
> site and also causing a drain on their bandwidth.

This is called hot-linking. It is a no-no. This is a situation where
legal action might be justified.


> I have been made aware of one site in my industry that requires people
> to fill out a form --www.bicgraphics.com.

I doubt it is enforceable. I couldn't find the form.
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"MagnetDogWM" wrote:

> I also am interested in the legality of people who link to my website
> without my permission or knowledge.

Most people here if not all can't answer that question because they are no
lawyers. There have been many court cases regarding deep linking. You
might want to read up on those, but for legal advice you need a lawyer.

http://www.google.com/search?q=deeplinking%20court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking

quote:

"American Library Association - list of (mostly deep) links to articles
about deep linking"

ha ha ha!

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MagnetDogWM wrote:

> I can imagine some people trying to sabotage their competition by
> putting them in link farms or spamming in their name to draw the wrath
> of the search engine gods.

Google are wise to this sort of thing. They know that webmasters have no
control over incoming links, so incoming links are never used to penalise
a site's ranking. That is:

* "genuine" incoming links: raise a site's profile;
* link farms: don't raise a site's profile, but don't lower it.

A link is analagous to a road sign, or a route map. All the referring site
is doing is providing a set of directions to its visitors on how to find a
particular piece of content on your site. And as sets of directions go, a
direct link is more user-friendly than "go to their home page, click
'articles' and then click '2005' and then click 'June' and then click the
article 'how to link to other sites'".

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