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Guidelines for Sites Linking to Mayo Medical Laboratories

We welcome links to our site; please follow the guidelines below.

Links to the Mayo Medical Laboratories home page

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

Mayo Medical Laboratories

<a href="http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com">Mayo Medical Laboratories</a>

If you need text to describe Mayo Medical Laboratories, use the following:

Mayo Medical Laboratories is a global reference laboratory operating within Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world. With more than 3,200 employees, including more than 160 physicians and scientists, the department performs testing on all Mayo Medical Laboratories specimens.

Links to Mayo Medical Laboratories article pages

Links should be text only and should not use the logo from the site, any images or JavaScript.

General guidelines for linking to Mayo Medical Laboratories

  • URLs for individual pages may change as we update content. Please check your links often to ensure they remain active.
  • Re-post ing Mayo Medical Laboratories content or images on other Web sites or framing of Mayo Medical Laboratories pages within another Web site is prohibited. Instead of framing, we encourage you to open Mayo Medical Laboratories in a new window. Users have found that approach easy to navigate, and they remain on your site.

    • To point users to Mayo Medical Laboratories and open the results in a new window, the code is:

    <a href="http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com/" target="mayowindow">Mayo Medical Laboratories</a>

  • Links to Mayo Medical Laboratories should not appear (through highlighting, for instance) as though the linking site has an overarching relationship with Mayo Medical Laboratories.
  • Paraphrasing or excerpting Mayo Medical Laboratories content is not permitted.