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Originally Posted by Gravitate
Had I known you guys would be responding on Christmas Eve I would have stuck around. Thanks RTD (I have been here 2 days and am already throwing around acronymns), Minstrel and Fathom - your knowledge and advice are really appreciated.
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Golly "G" thank you for that complement! Some of us seem to be here 24/7 and I guess that would include Xmas day too.
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Originally Posted by Gravitate
2. I see why you are advising me to point to internal pages on their site that explains my service and then link out to my site. I would imagine that would give me a lot more relevance when linking to my site. The only issue there is I wonder what my clients would think of this. Having a simple link at the bottom of a page to my site is usually not an issue with any of our clients, but asking for an entire page might be a bit much, but worth asking because it would sure be more useful. Perhaps, I can offer them a small discount for this.
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4. Fathom, I agree. I offer a link to a lot of my client's sites, though I should probably offer them a page on my site explaining their services, so that they get the benefit of relevancy.
QUESTION: If I have a bunch of 1-page bios on my site of all of my client's sites, would that dilute the overall message of my site?
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I wanted to address these two questions together.
What you basicly have here is more than a link exchange. It is more like a "page exchange" when I look at it. And as such, would be more advantageous to both parties in my opinion.
On the concerns of existing sites or sites that may balk at the one page links, maybe a short one paragraph with link perhaps on either their Contact Page, About Us page, or both of them. This paragraph would be unobtrusive to the viewer, but still picked up on by a spider. At the bottom of all the site pages you would have one of those jump links with the # sign in them...when clicked on, it take you to the internal page at the place where you bio is.
On your site, you can have two type of pages in your portfolio now. Full blown pages that describe what the site is about and what they do (their promo story plus their links, followed by all the techniques that you designed into the site (with links pointing internally to those services). The other type of page would be more like a general links page like you have right now...but fill it with your technical jargon and not theirs.
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Originally Posted by Gravitate
Thanks again everyone and Happy Holidays!!
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You are most welcome again....and bah back atcha! ;0)