From 4ffc885ee3ee9d2b13881c5503f3036d8c655fd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Tatham Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:18:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention explicitly that offering us a reciprocal link is a very silly way to persuade us to link to a website. [originally from svn r3936] --- doc/faq.but | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index e75f9ca4..d87d1a0c 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.62 2004/03/04 21:24:10 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: faq.but,v 1.63 2004/03/16 08:18:37 simon Exp $ \A{faq} PuTTY FAQ @@ -971,6 +971,13 @@ to have a high Google ranking, we'd prefer that you achieve this the way we did - by being good enough at what you do that people will link to you simply because they like you. +In particular, we aren't interested in trading links for money (see +above), and we \e{certainly} aren't interested in trading links for +other links (since we have no advertising on our web site, our +Google ranking is not even directly worth anything to us). If we +don't want to link to you for free, then we probably won't want to +link to you at all. + If you have software based on PuTTY, or specifically designed to interoperate with PuTTY, or in some other way of genuine interest to PuTTY users, then we will probably be happy to add a link to you on