I think in some misguided attempt to keep the visitor from leaving.
I think it’s a lot more innocent than that: old SEO trauma from search engines treating lots of outbound links as link farms, and collating and inserting links is additional effort, it would be habitual for the most academic minded but not necessarily for more casual writers.
That’s one reason, but the other is often sites that don’t want you to leave. Like when no news site will actually link out to the paper from “scientists at foo university” - you’re not supposed to be more interested in that than in going to the next article.
Yeah. The “don’t leave” thing is pretty insidious. I’ve noticed a number of tech blogs will include a link to the primary source—but only grudgingly and they try to bury it as much as possible.
I think it’s a lot more innocent than that: old SEO trauma from search engines treating lots of outbound links as link farms, and collating and inserting links is additional effort, it would be habitual for the most academic minded but not necessarily for more casual writers.
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That’s one reason, but the other is often sites that don’t want you to leave. Like when no news site will actually link out to the paper from “scientists at foo university” - you’re not supposed to be more interested in that than in going to the next article.
score 1 · canonical
Yeah. The “don’t leave” thing is pretty insidious. I’ve noticed a number of tech blogs will include a link to the primary source—but only grudgingly and they try to bury it as much as possible.
score 1 · canonical