Links Policy

This document has detailed information for webmasters who wish to link to SCAtoday.net or to syndicate our content on their own sites.

General Links to SCAtoday.net

SCAtoday.net recommends that other web sites link to our main page (http://scatoday.net/) if they wish to recommend our site to their visitors.

We appreciate such links, and we invite webmasters who link to our site to submit their own main URL as a potential "partner site." We will reciprocate the link if we consider the web site to be related to our topics and therefore of interest to our visitors. We will not acquire "partners" that are unrelated to our topics simply as a way to increase our traffic, and we do not accept paid reciprocal links or banners.

Outbound Links from SCAtoday.net to Other Sites

In our links catalog are outbound URL links to numerous other web sites. These are provided as a courtesy and a useful service to our visitors.

SCAtoday.net has no control over the content of these sites, and while we try to keep track of our links we cannot promise you won't occasionally find something out there that offends you. We consider removal of offensive links on a case-by-case basis, weighing the sensibilities of any one individual against the mission of our site and our perception of the sensibilities of the majority of our visitors.

If you run a web site that is related to living history, the SCA, or historical research, and you think it would be of interest to our visitors, you are welcome to submit it for consideration. We do not, in general, link to unrelated sites, so if you are promoting diet pills, investments, or multilevel marketing we are not interested.

Policy on "Deep Links" to SCAtoday.net

Other web sites are welcome to link directly to single articles or sections of SCAtoday.net, but we do not guarantee that the URLs for such content will not change in the future, nor do we guarantee a redirection link if they do.

In general, we don't object to these so-called "deep links," as long as you understand that they may not be indefinitely valid. The proper way to link to one of our articles is with a URL like this:

http://scatoday.net/node/#
where the "#" is replaced with the node number of the article. In an upcoming software revision, this format will change slightly but in this case we do plan to redirect to the new URLs (the "view" directory level is going away).

SCAtoday.net does not, however, welcome deep links to individual graphic files on our site. The modern-world legal status of such links is currently the subject of much debate, but at the very least we consider such links to be unethical because they allow our graphics to be used out-of-context without our permission.

In the spirit of treating others as we would wish to be treated, SCAtoday.net will not deep-link to individual graphics on other web sites unless we have the permission of the site owner to do so. Our normal policy is to link from our newswire directly to the full text of the referenced article or story, but we will make reasonable efforts to construct such links in such a way that they render the article in the full, normal, context of the destination site, with advertising intact. Sites that wish to have us link only to their main "home page" should contact our Editor-In-Chief to request this; we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate such requests.

SCAtoday.net provides banners which you may freely copy and display on your site provided that they are clickable hyperlinks that point to our main page, http://scatoday.net/.