Anything to be done about lack of link in a WSJ story?

[scodtt]

We had this great, great thing happen which is that the Wall St. Journal quoted me in a story about contract workers. The story (here, and my blog about it here) was awesome, but it had absolutely no link. It got the name of my company right, but the only link comes in a comment that I wrote, and that is on a separate comment page that has not shown up in my Open Site Explorer, or any other tool that I can see for inbound links.

Is there anyway to help Google to understand that the Blogmutt that the WSJ wrote about is the same as the Blogmutt.com on the internet?

I don't imagine there is, but I'd be interested if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks in advance,

(First time posting here)

-Scott

[EGOL]

It is REALLY DIFFICULT to get links from these types of publications....  but one helpful thing that you can do is to tell them that your business is BlogMutt.com instead of BlogMutt.

[RyanKent]

The article shows two authors. You could contact one or both of the authors and request the reference to your site be changed into a link. That would be the most effective approach.

[scodtt]

D'oh! That's brilliant, and now I'm kicking myself that I didn't do that.

The editors there may not have gone for that because they can see that our name is Blogmutt everywhere else, but it would have been worth a try.

I'll try that for sure next time.

[scodtt]

I just don't want to annoy the writer, and it looks like it's a sitewide policy. They don't link to anyone in the body of their stories that also appear in the paper.

On their blogs they have outbound links, so for SEO reasons it's clearly much better to be covered by a blog that's part of WSJ and not by the paper, even though the paper is the most widely circulated in the world.

[firstconversion]

Check with writers before you give the interview & make it a condition of the interview