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Originally Posted by mjtaylor
Since I have been designing sites I usually place a site wide link back to my site in the footer. (The exceptions are another topic.) I believe only one link is “credited” PR wise … but I am wondering whether it would be a stronger move, SEO-wise, to only link back from the home page.
What do you do with client sites?
Do you think a home page only link would be an advantage, SEO wise?
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We put a link on the footer of all the sites we build which appears on all pages - with client permission.
I have no problem with this ethically - if I was a car manufacturer, I'd put a badge on the front and back of every car. No different in my view.
And I don't have a problem with it from an
SEO point of view either - because I'm building for our client, (and us), not the search engines (see Google Webmaster guidelines!). All the search engines recognise this practice and adjust for it - think link filters!
I get site traffic, and business from these links, but I don't get any ranking benefit, because the search engines will only credit 1 IBL from a domain, and if our client site isn't about online marketing or web site design even that gets filtered.
Over the last couple of years I have not seen any positive or negative affect as a result from our growing list of IBLs from client sites.