http://www.right2link.org is a site I most recently discovered while reading my emails from search engine optimization sites and website help sites. This organization is fighting for something that shouldn’t even have to be in question to begin with… our right to link to sites in social media and emails and on our websites. This news is very very disturbing to me and I would hope to you also. Just imagine having to pay someone or just having to get permission from someone every time you want to send someone a link to a site or post it in your blogs or on your social networks. What a horrible inconvenience, which at the very least will mess up internet businesses immensely.
As a small business just getting started, and struggling very hard to get the word out that I exist, I find this situation about linking very disturbing. I’ve struggled for weeks on a learning curve of SEO and trying to get my site, search engine friendly. Why in the world should I now have to worry about people not being able to freely link to me which is what I am in dire need of to start with? This would hurt every and all small businesses trying to get a start on the internet in extreme ways which would hurt the economy’s growth immensely as well as hurt the current economy’s status if links are limited. This would most especially be a horrible thing if the search engines were then made to choose according to what they have the rights to show links for, or have to rely on paying to show them making the links extremely biased to paid advertising only.
I have only 1 think to say to those people trying to stifle the freedom to link:
CoffeeCup Website Access Manager (CoffeeCup Website Software) – if you don’t want your site seen, then block the content don’t block the right to go to it completely and most definitely don’t punish the rest of the world because you don’t want to be seen on the internet. Don’t publish on the internet if you don’t want people to see you. Password protect your site from access if you don’t want it publicly viewed. It’s that simple. This is not something that needs to be handled by the world, only by you.
As a very small online only business owner, I sure hope people will fight for this right to link, because if you don’t, my business and the businesses of thousands of others will no longer be able to exist, because we can’t get started to begin with under their plan.
Take a moment and go visit the right2link website and view the material there and join the fight with me and hundreds of others trying to keep their businesses and social freedoms linkable! Add your support today!
Jo Ann Rice,
Owner – Accessories of the World
http://accessoriesoftheworld.com
Aman Sister! You are doing well! Keep up the good work…