Linking policy

This is a template linking policy. It has been designed to help those website operators who wish to set out in detail their policies and practices on hyperlinking. It may be used to state a website's policy for linking out, as well as to assist in the management of incoming links. Although this sort of policy is unusual, it can be useful on certain types of site. Use of the linking policy is subject to the licensing provisions of our terms and conditions. For a summary of these provisions, see below.

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Our terms and conditions specify that you must keep the credit for SEQ Legal in the document, and that you must link to us if you publish the document on a website. A quick summary of the licensing terms is below.  If you want to use the linking policy without a credit or link, you can get a licence to do so here:

 

More information about linking policies

This linking policy template is designed to help website owners to codify their linking policies and practices. The linking policy can be used as a stand-alone document, or as part of another legal notice.

Hyperlinks are fundamental to the world wide web. The major search engines all treat links to a website as votes for that website, and web pages with many links will - all else being equal - tend to rank more highly on the search engine results pages that web pages with few links. Higher rankings mean more traffic. Accordingly, most owners of commercial websites will want to attract as many links as possible to their websites.

On the other hand, for some websites in-links can give rise to commercial and occasionally legal problems.

This linking policy document is intended to assist with the linking process, by highlighting to potential link-givers the website owner's requirements or preferences.  A linking policy can also be used to publicise the criteria used by the website owner's own link-giving practices

A linking policy are sometimes called a "web linking policy", "hyperlink policy", "hyperlinking policy" or "link policy"; or alternatively a "linking statement" etc.

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  2. Subject to this point, you may edit and amend the documents to render them suitable for your purposes.
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