Difference between revisions of "LinkingGuide"

Revision as of 21:43, 8 November 2008

Categories

Instead of mass linking (internal or external), categories are a constructive way to gather and categorize sites that are related. You can help us build categories, but please keep in mind that the purpose of categories is to help users locate useful information and to link wiki pages to related sites. Categories are not designed to be an SEO tool and can be viewed as spam when overused. Hyper categorization makes information harder to locate, not easier. On the other hand, it is not a category if there are only 1 or 2 webpages linked, or if you are advertising your website.

No external links, other than to the occasional wiki are supposed to be in categories. If you work on a making a category description good, it is very acceptable to add at the bottom, your WikiPage or PersonalPage link.

For example:

Category:Airport Parking

Category:Internet Search

Category:Service

Category:Websearch

Category:Search Services

Link Spam

When a page is loaded with links to outside pages that have no correlation or links that still have html tags around them, we view this as link spam. These are subject to deletion.

Category Spam

When someone creates a bunch of categories and adds their external links to the category. This is a bit of work to clean up and should be stopped as soon as seen. Try to always AssumeGoodFaith and request the person read this guide.

Misleading Naming

Please do not add links (internal or external) with titles that purport to be something else.

BiLinks

allow comfortable navigation and maintaining of internal and external Wiki-contributions. It should go without saying that a link to an external (wiki-) page should be linked back for fairness.

WikiLink

Somebody put the following entry under the BiLinks introducer "". Checking this site produced no backlink. So it demonstrates a counterexample: [www.caribbeantg.com]

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-==Internal Linking==
-[[Image:Link.png|left]]By nature, Wikis support rich internal linking, also known as [[Automagical Linking]] or [[WikiLinking]].
-:The [[Related Domains]] area of each domain page uses this internal linking idea to create a system that allows users to discover related sites within the [[AboutUs.org]] database.  Ideally, each domain page will have somewhere between a few and '''no more than 30 related links'''.
-:If you have a site that is related to a given topic, feel free to add some related links from other site pages to your page.  Please don't over do it, however.  If you're adding more than '''30''' such links or are putting up links on very popular and unrelated sites, then it will look like [[spam]] to us.  In addition, linking from a high profile site is questionable.
-:<b>To link internally:</b>
-:While editing a wiki page, place double square brackets around the AboutUs page name and the description text you wish to become a link.  Be sure to separate them with a vertical bar.  This: <nowiki>[[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]</nowiki> will appear as [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]].
 == Categories ==