Guidelines for sites linking to MayoClinic.com

We welcome links to pages on our site, provided the following guidelines are observed.

Links to the MayoClinic.com home page

Use text only (for example, www.MayoClinic.com). Do not use JavaScript or the site logo. The text below should assist in coding the HTML link to the MayoClinic.com home page. Use a plain text link and paste the block of HTML code provided into the page.

MayoClinic.com

<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com">MayoClinic.com</a>

If you need text to describe MayoClinic.com, please use the following:

Mayo Clinic Health Solutions

<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com">Mayo Clinic Health Solutions</a>

Text to describe MayoClinic.com:

Mayo Clinic Health Solutions' award-winning consumer Web site offers health information and self-improvement tools. MayoClinic.com's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for all your consumer health information needs, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to nutrition, exercise and pregnancy.

Links to MayoClinic.com article pages or Center home pages

Links should be text only (for example, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/CA00003) and should not use the logo from the site, any images or JavaScript. The text below should assist in coding the HTML link. Use a plain text link and paste the block of HTML code provided into the page.

Please follow the template below to find the proper text for links to interior pages. The template should be filled in using the word found immediately after "health/" in the URL.

MayoClinic.com ______ information

For example, to create a link to http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/CA00003, the text should read:

MayoClinic.com Cancer Information

<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/CA00003"> MayoClinic.com Cancer Information</a>

General guidelines for linking to MayoClinic.com

• URLs for individual pages may change as we update content. Please check your links often to ensure they remain active. If you're not linking to a specific article, we recommend that you link to the home page of the Center that is most relevant to your topic.

• Re-posting MayoClinic.com content or images on other Web sites or framing of MayoClinic.com pages within another Web site is prohibited. Instead of framing, we encourage you to open MayoClinic.com in a new window. Users have found that approach easy to navigate, and they remain on your site.

  To point users to MayoClinic.com and open the results in a new window, the code is:

  <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.com/" target="mayoclinicwindow">www.MayoClinic.com</a>

• Links to MayoClinic.com should not appear (through highlighting, for instance) as though the linking site has an overarching relationship with Mayo Clinic.
• If you wish to link to drug information content on MayoClinic.com, the link must go to the MayoClinic.com Drug Information home page at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-information/DrugHerbIndex. Links to individual drug pages are not permitted.
• Paraphrasing or excerpting MayoClinic.com content is not permitted.

Use of MayoClinic.com RSS feeds

We welcome the use of MayoClinic.com RSS feeds for personal use in a news reader or as part of a noncommercial Web site or blog. If you post our RSS content links on your Web site, we ask that you provide proper attribution to "MayoClinic.com" and that you also provide a link to our home page at www.MayoClinic.com as described above under "Links to the MayoClinic.com home page."

Licensing content from MayoClinic.com

MayoClinic.com has a content licensing program. If you're interested in licensing MayoClinic.com content for your site, please contact Lindsay Dingle for more information at dingle.lindsay@mayo.edu or 507-284-8875.