Found a broken link on a museum site in Chicago and got a dofollow backlink out of it

I emailed the curator about a dead resource page on their ancient artifacts section, offered my replacement article, and they threw me a link within 48 hours.

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jade_singh1mo ago

...but isn't that kind of taking advantage of the situation a bit? I mean, you found a broken link on a museum site and instead of just letting them know so they could fix it with their own content, you slid in and offered your own article. That feels less like helping and more like trading a dead link for a live one. If every webmaster did that, museums would get flooded with offers instead of actually fixing their resources. Sure, you got a dofollow out of it, but the curator probably just took the easy way out. Doesn't that cheapen what the link is supposed to represent?

casey161mo ago

Rolled my eyes so hard I nearly saw my own brain. Oh no, a webmaster got a dofollow link. The horror. The absolute crime against internet kindess. Guess we better call the link police. Heaven forbid someone actually fixes a dead resource on a museum site. You know, the thing that was literally broken and useless before.

the_morgan22d agoMost Upvoted

Bet the person who originally wrote that dead link wouldn't have given it a second thought. A dofollow for actually fixing a problem seems fair to me.