Comments on: CIPR’s Social Media guidelines… how did that ‘deep linking’ nonsense creep in?

By: David Phillips

David Phillips — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:44:07 +0000

I agree. So lets look at this. If you do not want deep linking then you create a site that makes it hard (e.g. use flash, frames etc). If you ‘say’ people can’t deep link and do not make it clear by actions or a page by page disclaimer (plus a robot block) then you are negligent in the protection of your property.
If you don’t want deep linking keep all the serach engines out.
Now…. try and survive.
I am with you, deep linking rules have to go.

By: Simon Wakeman

Simon Wakeman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:15:23 +0000

Absolutely agree – anyone with any sense builds a website knowing that people will arrive on any page, and won’t necessarily come in via the homepage.

I haven’t got around to blogging about the CIPR guidelines; there are some many parts that frustrate me with the tone – even the email announcing them betrayed CIPR’s negative attitude to social media – headline was “CIPR tackles poor practice in social media”!