Why is the company reference of "designed by" with a link back my web development site not being indexed as a link?
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Using the Mozbar I am analyzing my links and my competitors links. I am noticing other web developer sites are getting credit/index links from all their client's websites with the "designed by...." link in the footer. However, for me I only see one "inbound link" in the link analysis report. Sometimes I notice a company getting several inbound links on one site they built. I have built many other sites and have my company link below on all the footers. Why are the other sites not showing up as "inbound links" on the link analysis report?
Thanks for your help!
Nikki
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Did you look specifically at the sites Patrick mentioned for link assessment? You can use Majestic for free for sites you control, which is great.
However, if we are talking about "designed by" footer links, those are not going to be very valuable in any case, and should probably be nofollowed, anyway.
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Hi Patrick,
Yes, the same data came up for me using Hubpsot. I submit all my client's site to be forced indexed via "fetch with Google" and sitemap submission in Google webmaster tools. The site which is giving me the inbound link is not a high traffic site. The other sites I have built for clients get tons of traffic for users each day, therefore I would assume more indexing and attention. What else can I do? I see that my competitor's (website developers locally) are getting better rankings due to the inbound links from sites they built, I should also .
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
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Hi there
Crawlers sometimes catch links and sometimes don't - they are all different. Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, and Search Console will all return different link data sets, so don't be discouraged because you don't see it in one tool. Sometimes it's a matter of when you acquired a link and when their site was crawled.
Have you gotten a second opinion and checked other tools? Let me know! Good luck!
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