This took me by surprise while reading cnet news I came across an article on businessweek having a policy of not linking to them.
With all the talk,and articles across the net on the value of links this took me by surprise.

read article here 'BusinessWeek': Don't link to us
Your thoughts?

5 comments

Laice January 27, 2008 at 6:57 AM

I won't! guess they are so well known they don't need the publicity :)
Anonymous January 29, 2008 at 7:51 AM

This is surprising to me too. I don't see what benefit their policy would have for them, only negatives. Oh well.....
Chris
Carol January 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM

I have heard that many of the News Sites are doing this, I think that they are concerned with deep linking and having readers bypass their homepages.
steven wilson January 30, 2008 at 11:46 PM

like you mention carol I believe that to be the answer also.
Anonymous August 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM

Yes the reason is that their main domain passes on Pr and they dont depend on links. They don't want them so that crap site dont link to them ;-)

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