Don’t Link To Me?

It amazes me that some companies try so hard to not be linked from a search engine, while every SEO person I know is struggling to get links. Copiepresse, an organization which manages copyright for the Belgian French- and German-speaking press (I won’t link to them because I don’t want to have them mad at me - lol), went after Google to stop them from producing snippets of articles on Google. They seem to think that the links from Google news were impacting the revenue stream of their clients. Their logic seemed a little shakey at best to me. Hmmm… Links => Potential Visitors => Revenue… sounds simple to me.

Note to search engines: I have meta descriptions and links both available whenever you want to link to me

This just seems so bizarre to me. I would actually like to see Google comply. Just remove every last link to these newspapers. Then we will see if their revenue takes a hit.Â