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Old 05-28-2012, 12:23 AM   #1
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This is probably a silly question, but I just wanted to confirm this. Is there ever a situation where you would need permission to post a link to someone else's site on your website? Or is it always okay to include links to any sites you like?
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Old 05-28-2012, 12:36 AM   #2
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It's generally OK. It's courteous to let someone know if you're adding them to a sidebar.

Don't link directly to images without permission; that's called hotlinking and it's rude since you're consuming their bandwidth, and they'll have to pay for it.
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:31 AM   #3
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It's generally OK. It's courteous to let someone know if you're adding them to a sidebar.

Don't link directly to images without permission; that's called hotlinking and it's rude since you're consuming their bandwidth, and they'll have to pay for it.
What do you mean adding them to a sidebar?
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:40 AM   #4
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What do you mean adding them to a sidebar?
As in a blog roll; a list of sites that appears on every post.

It's no small thing to be placed in a sidebar—so a courteous note re: I love your site so much/this particular post so much I've added it to my blogroll/sidebar etc. is a courteous way to let them know they're appreciated and to say thank you.
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:46 AM   #5
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It's a way of saying "Expect more traffic." If they pay for their bandwidth based upon usage, they can plan for using more bandwidth.
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:53 AM   #6
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As in a blog roll; a list of sites that appears on every post.

It's no small thing to be placed in a sidebar—so a courteous note re: I love your site so much/this particular post so much I've added it to my blogroll/sidebar etc. is a courteous way to let them know they're appreciated and to say thank you.
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It's a way of saying "Expect more traffic." If they pay for their bandwidth based upon usage, they can plan for using more bandwidth.
Ohhh, thanks. I did not know that.

I do have something like that on my blog. I just put in links to interesting or relevant places I've found. My blog's so obscure, I doubt I've driven much traffic to them, but I suppose it would be nice to give them a heads-up anyway.
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I suppose it would be nice to give them a heads-up anyway.
It's not only a courtesy, wrt to bandwidth as Williebee rightly notes, but think you feel when someone tells you "Hey, that thing you [painted/wrote/did] I really liked it!"

Courtesy and community and conversation; they drive the 'net. The trolls would like to think otherwise, but it's true.
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If the blog is WordPress, in the Discussion Settings area you can set a Default article setting to Allow link notifications from other blogs to see who links to your articles. Pingbacks and Trackbacks then show up in the comment area.

I've seen themes allow you to set a post to send notification to a link added in the body of the post to another site as well.
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It's generally OK. It's courteous to let someone know if you're adding them to a sidebar.

Don't link directly to images without permission; that's called hotlinking and it's rude since you're consuming their bandwidth, and they'll have to pay for it.
Thanks! I'm just sticking to the basics, and I'm not familiar with how one would link directly to an image, so as long as it isn't something I could do accidentally without meaning to, I don't think that will be a problem.
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