Can I Post External Links?

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Wild About Britain allows occasional links to external websites, but we don't allow spam. We're keen to help promote wildlife and environment websites around the UK, but we also want to control the type and amount of links posted on the site.

With a few conditions attached (see below) we allow quite a lot links on the site via our link pages, forum signatures, directory, forum profile, news etc, but we don't want links to start filling up the forum threads because:

  • Not surprisingly, we've found some members linking out to external sites as a form of free advertising
  • Links can sometimes be a real community killer, stopping a conversation and taking it off the site
  • The URL of links can often change and the 20/30 replies in the thread become a waste of time.
  • It's easy to cut and paste content into the forum or reference pages, so there should be little need to link to external websites
  • We don't want to link to unsuitable or illegal webpages and websites,and the content of the link page might change
  • Lastly, if WAB links to blacklisted sites then we lose credibility and points with search engines, so we've added rel="nofollow" code to all links

    The Good News - Ways in which you can link from Wild About Britain

  • You can link to your own non-commercial wildlife and environment website in your forum signature after you have made 25 posts - and you must first place a prominent link to WAB on your own site.
  • You can setup a reciprocal link with us via our link pages.
  • If you are an established wildlife or environment-related organisation, you may be able to list in the Wild About Britain directory
  • You can advertise on the website via the google ads

We usually allow the occasional link to a good non-commercial site, but regular
link posts to the same site will usually result in all of the links
being removed.