Link Dunkin’!

by Sapphire (September 19, 2006)

There’s some interesting stuff going on around the web. Since I can’t cover these items as well as other bloggers are doing, I thought I’d just give a link to their articles instead:

A Belgium news service is suing Google for linking to their web pages without paying them for the content. Here in the US, we’re very conditioned to think anything that enhances are chances for profit is something to be grateful for, but the European mindset is a little different, and frankly I see where they’re coming from. It’s their content: why shouldn’t they have the right to require permission to reprint it? Isn’t that how copyrighted material offline works? On the other hand, what’s next? All the other European news services demanding payment for content linkage? What about other content providers? Small fries like me may benefit too much from Google linkage to want it restricted in any way, but what if other sites start rethinking the value of their relationship with Google?

SEORefugee points out just how easy it would be to get someone else’s AdSense account banned, leaving them with forfeited income and no appeal method, thanks to Google’s set up. And if that’s not enough to scare you, Lynn Terry reports on the new report suggesting AdSense died August 1 of this year. It’s a free report, with a second free section to be available September 21, and it doesn’t appear to be selling anything so far. It’s a little preachy and redundant to me (my opinion of every marketing ebook I’ve ever read), but it makes some good points.

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