Nofollow on Client Site

[AliMac26]

Hi,

On our client sites we have a link in the footer that says the site is maintained and developed by my company. That link takes you to a page that has outbound links to our site. Should these links be nofollow, since in a way they are almost like sponsored links? I feel like I read that somewhere but I can't remember where.

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks!

[donsilvernail]

Hi Ali,

It is considered bad practice to have followed links in a clients footer. Google considers this span since it will essentially be a link on every page of a clients site. Also many of these sites may not have anything to do with your company making them not as relevant to begin with.

I have read some articles in which tests were done trying to confirm that a site could not rank by doing this. However they found out that in the early game these links indeed helped a new site rank quickly. But they still highly advised against this form of link building because it was against googles link building policy.

Thanks,

Don Silvernail

[AliMac26]

Hi Donald,

Thanks for your reply. So if we linked ourselves from the client footer contact us page (the link would go to a content page about us with links to our site), that would likely also be considered spam as well?

[donsilvernail]

You are best to set the link as no follow