Linking to USA.gov

USA.gov (www.usa.gov) is the official web portal for the U.S. government. It is a public domain website, which means you may link to USA.gov at no cost. In fact, there are over 5 million direct links to USA.gov from other websites, providing their customers direct access—from one easy location—for all official U.S. government transactions, services, and information.

We encourage you to use our logo, which is provided below. The USA.gov logo is the official registered trademark for the U.S. government's web portal. The USA.gov logo may be used only to link to the USA.gov website. Placement of the USA.gov logo is to be used only as a marker to the USA.gov home page and not as a form of endorsement or approval from USA.gov, the Office of Citizen Services and Communications, the U.S. General Services Administration, or the U.S. government.

We ask that when you link to USA.gov, you do it in an appropriate context as a service to your customers when they need to find official U.S. government information and services.

We also encourage you to link to GobiernoUSA.gov, the official Spanish language web portal of the U.S. government. We offer the GobiernoUSA.gov logo in various sizes and formats.

Text to Describe USA.gov

Short Version: USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services.

Long version: USA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services. As the catalyst for a growing electronic government, USA.gov helps citizens navigate through government red tape. At USA.gov, you can apply for benefits online, contact a government agency, or use the Internet's most comprehensive search of government websites—all from one easy location.

To place the source and graphic into your web page

Select one of the images below to use on your website and save it to your images directory. Generally, you can save the image by right-clicking on it and selecting your browser's "Save Image As" or "Save Picture As" command. Please copy the graphic to your website and change the IMG SRC address to use it from your web server. In the examples below, the image was saved in the '/images/' directory.

If you have any questions about linking to USA.gov, the use of the USA.gov logo, or want more information or promotional materials on USA.gov, please contact us.