Working free for high-profile website, best way to scratch my own back ?
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I hope this question doesn't sound like some namedropping cheesy kind of question, the biggest website traffic wise I am involved in is the official website for the actor Sir Roger Moore http://roger-moore.com/ most famous for his role as James Bond.
I agreed with Sir Roger to be his webmaster and said I will work for free because I appreciate his work as a UNICEF ambassador. In exchange I can use his website for tasteful self-promotion or to produce some personal revenue.
Is it a good idea to link to my two "unrelated" busines swebsites or would that not be very productive for link juice?
We all l have to earn a living and I am not rich, so I may as well try and make something from my time spent working on this high profile website.
What would you do a fair exchange for you time given free etc?
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My thinking was a link is a link etc and I've already done that to the holiday letting website and when I check out the back links it comes out as the most prominent link I've got. I realise that this is not very likely to attract customers for the product and selling, which is holiday cottages. I get quite a few requests for people wanting me to link to websites that sell James Bond related material, but I've.cashed in.
I started a forum from the website and Roger answers six questions each month, so it has some reasonable activity. If
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Thank you is a good idea, I don't know why I didn't consider myself thank you
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Id have an "about the webmaster" page and explain the story as you have here. then do a short paragraph on your other projects
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Hi Alan,
Sounds like the kind thing I would do. I am already doing webmaster services for free for several non-profit clubs etc.I had a thought, why don't you start your own James Bond Fan Blog? Would that be any good?
Stupid question...
What about web designers who have a portfolio page? A lot of unrelated links to websites they have designed?
Is Google going to frown on this too? Or is this taken into account?Cheers,
Peter Mead -
I agree.
I help a couple people with their websites and I don't feel that their sites are:
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related enough to mine to send valuable traffic through a link... or...
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relevant enough for that link to be an important "vote" in the eyes of google.
A link on their site to mine would produce an unpleasant odor for their visitors.
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Think about this... one way that google detects manipulation is the presence of links that point to entirely unrelated websites - especially if they have optimized anchor text. A link like that could paint a small target on either site. Not worth the risk.
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To tell the truth, I'm not sure what you could do here that is
a)useful to sites you actually want to promote and
b)in the best interests of your client.
There really isn't a fit SEO-wise, but it sounds like this is something you enjoy doing for its sake. If you get anything out of it I would just link to a personal site of your own (properly, not bottom of every page kind of thing), maybe list the Geller work there, and build that site up with juice from your ever-increasing stable of celebrity clients.
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my websites business related have got nothing to do with the subject of Roger Moore, security alarms, CCTV and holiday cottages, not exactly James Bond
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It's a very strange story, I'm involved and I think it strange !
I met a psychic called once Uri Geller, who was famous in early 70 is and became his web master a few years ago. This led me to meet in London Tony Curtis and I actually loved the program called The Persuaders when I was a kid which also stared Tony and Roger.
I have full control over the content of the official Sir Roger Moore website, whilst being watched I presume by Sir Rogers PA. I'm happy to do the work, because Roger is a dedicated UNICEF ambassador and I am a “fan” to a degree various levels.
I've been working on the website from the start and have revamped it into a WordPress platform. Just considering some kind of self-promotion blatantly
as the late Kenny Everett once said i"n the best possible taste" ? ahah -
Well, a link is a link no matter what and will be worth something. While the DA isnt super high, its in the 50's which is still pretty good.
What kind of work are you doing on the site? Do you have any type of control on the content that is published on the site? If you can somehow creatively come up with content remotely close to your content, and can use an analogy that ties them together and drop a link in there, the link could be worth more.
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