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Link Exchange Procedures
External Web site Link Exchange Procedure
Link Exchange Procedures
- Place the Pierce County Library System link on an unframed HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) or SSI (Server Side Includes) formatted page. The Library does not permit framing of the Pierce County Library Web pages.
- Use the Pierce County Library Web site link on your site directly. The Library does not permit the Pierce County Library Web site link on third-party sites or on different domains.
- The page on which you put the Pierce County Library link must contain less than 40 outbound links.
- The page on which you put the Pierce County Library link must be reachable from the homepage of your site.
Link Exchange Restrictions:
- You may not use the official seal of logotype of the Pierce County Library System without the consent of the Library’s Website Administrator.
- You should not use meta tags or robots.txt to prevent search engine indexing the page on which you put the Library’s link.
- You may not link directly to a PDF file on the Pierce County Library System web server.
- You may not pull graphics from the Pierce County Library System Web site, without permission from Library’s Website Administrator.
- You may pull text from the Pierce County Library System Web site, as long as you attribute the text to the Pierce County Library System.
- You may not link by way of a Three-Way-Link to the Pierce County Library Web site.
- The Library will not link to sites advertising commercially or for-profit organizations.
- The Library will not link to sites promoting a certain organization/agency beyond basic information about such organization/agency or to sites know to be illegal.
- The Library will not link to sites with materials known to be illegal.
How to exchange link with Pierce County Library?
You should establish a functional hyperlink to the Library’s Web site before requesting link exchange. If, after thoroughly reading the information on this page, you have a technical question, a question regarding your Web site’s eligibility to link to the Library, or would like to link to a page other than those provided in HTML, use the Feedback link at the bottom of this page using “Link Exchange Question” as the subject line of your e-mail. If you are especially concerned as to whether your Web site will qualify, the Library can preview your Web site and pre-qualify it before you expend the effort of establishing a link to our site. In general, please allow at least 48 hours for pre-qualification.
When soliciting a reciprocal link from Pierce County Library, please adhere to the requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act; include a valid e-mail address and the physical address of your organization. A phone number is helpful. Include your name and title. We do not accept requests for link exchange from third parties. Due to the high volume of third party requests we receive, we will not respond to such requests or to any request which is incomplete or which we believe to be deceptive.
Write a personal e-mail to webmaster@piercecountylibrary.org indicating why a link to your Web site will benefit visitors to the Library’s Web site. Be sure to provide the URL for the link so the Library can locate it on your site. In addition, provide a brief description (about two sentences maximum) that you would like the Library to post with your link. The Library may shorten your description.
Upon receipt of your e-mail requesting a link exchange partnership, the Library will verify your link to its Web site and perform one of the following actions:
- If your Web site qualifies for Pierce County Library System Link Exchange Partnership, the Library will install a reciprocal link to your site on the Library’s Link Exchange page or the most closely related directory page, usually within 24 hours. The Library’s directory pages are referenced on the Pierce County Library System Link Exchange page and in the site map.
- Pierce County Library may install a content link on one or more Topic Pages on our site. Installation of Topic Page links is at the Library’s discretion. After the Library has completed reciprocal link installation, the Library will send you a welcoming e-mail identifying the locations of any links the Library has directed to your Web site.
- If Pierce County Library feels your Web site does not qualify to link to the Library’s Web site due to a specific reason but is otherwise acceptable, the Library will notify you by e-mail, informing you as to why it did not accept your site. If at a future date you feel that your Web site complies with the Library’s Web site Requirements for Link Exchange, you may reapply for admission. Note that the Library will not respond to any request for what it believes is a spam link (automated or mass-produced request).
In order for Pierce County Library System Link Exchange Partners to remain in good standing, member Web sites must continue to conform to the Library’s stated Web site Link Exchange Policy. Links to the Library’s Web site must remain operational and verifiable. The Library allows for intermittent failure due to normal web hosting problems.
The Library’s Rights
Pierce County Library System reserves the right to at any time to revise its link exchange policy. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current version of the policy and procedures.
The Library reserves the right to deny your link, especially if it is determined that a Web site does not meet the criteria or does not comply with our link exchange requirements. The Library may edit links which are too wordy or use too much promotional language in their descriptions or title.
Liability
The Pierce County Library System Web site may contain links to other Web sites operated by third parties. The linked sites are not under the Library’s control and the Library is not responsible for their content. Such links do not imply the Library’s endorsement or guarantee of the products, information, or recommendations provided by any third party site.
The third party site may have a privacy policy different from Pierce County Library System and may provide less security than the Pierce County Library Web site. The Library disclaims all liability with regard to public access to such linked Web sites. Pierce County Library System provides links to other sites as a service to customers, and access to any other sites linked to the Library’s Web site is at an individual’s own risk.
Notes
THREE-WAY LINKING: Three-way linking, so named because it involves link exchange between three Web sites instead of two, has become a much-touted and much-abused strategy among novice or unscrupulous link managers. This link exchange format should more accurately be termed indirect linking because its purpose is to conceal an exchange of links between Web sites in an attempt to fool search engines into thinking that only one-way links exist.
Reference to related Policies and Procedures
Web site Link Exchange Policy
Web site Privacy Policy
Last Revised
10/11/2007