skibum - 6:31 pm on Apr 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

From a usability point of view, seems like deep linking is essential. It's much more valuable in SERPs to go in on an internal page that has the desired info than to have to start at the homepage and sift through the site.

When something is posted on the web, that info is basically there in the public domain for anyone to read or do whatever they want with in terms of linking or reading. If the site owner doesn't want people to deep link they should put the entire site on one page. That would make the site about as useful as if everyone had to enter on the homepage and deep links weren't permitted.

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