Powerful statement. Question everything and I like the statement. I want to keep learning and I want to do White hat principles for my clients to raise their DA and ultimately get found.

EGOL,

I appreciate you taking a stand on the position and question raised. I guess it all comes down to competition. I have only had my website and marketing business for two years. My competition has been doing this since 2010. They have a ton of the footer links coming back to their site which helps their DA which is presently a 34. If this helps them, why can't it work to help my DA while showing off my work?

I just wan to know what is right, so I don't do anything spammy but I can tell, my frustration with getting found is already putting me on the slippery slope of cutting corners.

G

Like I posted below, the CIMC is a digital marketing conference which MOZ is attending as an exhibitor. They have four links in their footer no of which are no follow.

Does this mean they are wrong?

They are rel="external" . Is that considered best practice?

G

Hi Deacyde,

I'm talking about the Website Designed By Constructiv Works type URL. It's purpose was two fold, one of which I have learned is bad. 1. it is to allow people who are looking at the site, if they like it, find me in the footer and come to my site. 2. To provide link value like almost every other site I have now reviewed.

Here's one I came across this morning with multiple URL's. http://digitalbuzz.ca/

How is this site any different? Denbow.com 

"sometimes I think I know what I am doing...other times I feel like a child lost in the forest..."

Hi EGOL,

I consider myself a white hat SEO person but I honestly didn't know about this. So am I a "good designer" probably not because I didn't know and everyday I am learning. I am working on trying to build out better and better sites with good design and UX.

However, am I someone who wants to learn from mistakes and improve? Yes, yes I can definitively tell you I am.

Thanks for the slap on the wrist and telling me to get my stuff together. Also, thanks for sharing the information so I can get better...

G

Gotcha. That makes sense and yet I am hoping that people in this person's network are looking for a webdesigner then they will click on and find me. But if that is spammy, I will remove it.

Didn't even think this was not good practice... almost two years in and still learning about the moving target.

Thanks again.

G

Thanks EGOL.

So if your a webdesigner and you built a site for a client, you are spammy if you put a link in the footer to your site? Is that correct?

Gary

Hi everyone.

I am trying to build up DA for my site and create linking opportunities with my clients sites but I am not seeing any link value.

I just did a redesign with another firm and we built out www.denbow.com . We have links to our sites in the footer but for some reason it's not being indexed.

Can someone help me understand if it is good to put built by a href link in the footer? I've built almost 12 sites in my first 1.5 years of being in business for myself and I thought the links would pass some sort of value.

Thanks in advance for the help and education.

Regards,

Noob Gary