Whats the best way to get credit links from sites i've built?

[SolveWebMedia]

Hello!

I've build 100's of sites. They mostly have site wide footer links pointing back to me. I know this is now frowned on. But does anyone have a good solution to get maximum value back from these?

A few have a footer link to a credit page that then links back.

I get quite a lot of work back from them. So I don't really fancy removing them.

Many thanks in advance.

[EGOL]

You could make them nofollow links using rel="nofollow".  That way you still get the brand mention (which google is supposed to value) and the visitor still gets the convenience of the click.  At the same time the risk of Google's disapproval is lowered for both you and your clients.

[Roman-Delcarmen]

There's nothing I can really add, Egol gave you the short and best possible answer