[jack-r-abbit]

That article has four links to other articles but not a link to the company it is profiling. I hate when they do that.

https://www.feex.com/

[privong]

It is annoying. But on the flip side, if the link was included, someone would have invariably commented that the "article reads like an ad". The authors can't win.

[jonathanjaeger]

I disagree. I think it's MUCH worse when, for example, you read an article about a Kickstarter project on Mashable or TechCrunch only to find that clicking on the hyperlink leads to other articles on those sites about Kickstarter and not the actual project link. I think those sites have gotten better at linking directly when commenters complain.

[privong]

Oh, I wasn't saying one was better than the other. Just observing that no matter what one did, someone would be unhappy about it :)

[corresation]

This is a growing anti-web trend -- the tendency of web properties to only self-link. I assume someone somewhere has actual metrics justifying this, but it's the antithesis of what the web is about, but it's exactly why the only links in this article are to other Bloomberg Business Week articles.

[lauradhamilton]

I think the idea is to pass your SEO juice to your other pages rather than external pages.