Whenever we post something at Doctor of Credit, we always give credit to other blogs/forums/twitter/e-mail if that’s how we found out about the deal. This rewards sites that find deals themselves, while still letting our readers know about that specific deal. The more incentives we can provide for people that find new deals, the better.
Unfortunately, not all blogs do the same. It’s very frustrating to find a deal and then have other blogs pick up that deal without giving credit to you, especially when you’ve credited their site in the past. Even worse is when somebody else posts the deal after you and then other sites in the same blog network link to that site instead of yours. Because of this, we’ve decided to change our linking out policy.
If a site consistently does not link to other websites about how they found specific deals, we will no longer link to that site. In particularly bad cases, I’ll actually go back and un-link all of our previous links to that site as well. As readers, it would great if you could support sites that link out properly and give credit where it’s due.
As always, if you have a deal/piece of news we think we should cover – please contact me and let me know about it ([email protected]). We will always attribute you and even link to your website if requested. P.S, I’m not going to name names, you know who you are and what you’re doing (I’m also not even close to the only blogger that this happens to on a regular basis).
