Publication of articles by the press office
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When the press office sends content about my business portals and it is published, is it considered a natural link or not? What is the correct form to put the link on this content?
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Hi Marcus,
I would probably recommend the same answer that I gave to your other question. If the link could be viewed as paid for a nofollow tag is safest.
Are you paying for these articles to be syndicated? I would say it would really depend on how the syndication process worked as to how careful you needed to be.
Ben
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