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Thanks Chris We have several affiliates that use banners that are stored on our servers, I have been told in the past you can not nofollow a link like [image: 470x80.gif] as it is not an <a href=""> is that not the case?</a>

Thanks for that Omid

Not sure you'd see any direct SEO benefit from having your URL written out. If your brand/company name is mentioned then you may get some benefit from those citations. Context and relevance are key here. A link would of course be better - both for visitors and for your website. I'd reach out to the webmaster and see if you can get this converted to to a proper link. As well as potentially passing link equity, if the page that's linking to your site is getting some visitors you might also benefit from some referral traffic.

Hi, This is Matt Cutt's view on the subject: "The other thing that happens is that people don’t always realize what they are linking to when they reprint these infographics. Often the link goes to a completely unrelated site, and one that they don’t mean to endorse. Conceptually, what happens is they really buy into publishing the infographic, and agree to include the link, but they don’t actually care about what it links to. From our perspective this is not what a link is meant to be." ... "This is similar to what people do with widgets as you and I have talked about in the past. I would not be surprised if at some point in the future we did not start to discount these infographic-type links to a degree. The link is often embedded in the infographic in a way that people don’t realize, vs. a true endorsement of your site." http://www.stonetemple.com/matt-cutts-and-eric-talk-about-what-makes-a-quality-site/ Google doesn't want to count links when people are posting them because it comes with the code - they want links to be an endorsement of the site. My recommendation is always to allow people to turn the links off in some fashion, whether we're talking about "powered by" links, widgets, or infographics. In your case, you could have two different code snippets: one that includes a link back to your site, and another that is either missing a link or nofollowed. I'd think it's totally fair to get links by creating something people want, especially if they have the option to turn it off. You can encourage people to share your site or "ink to the source, but "forcing" them to do so might someday result in links being devalued.

Ask yourself if you really think that multiple city pages are different enough in nature and content to bother.  Are you legitimately offering those services in those cities or are you just being greedy with traffic? If you really think it makes sense, I would start by building out the top 5-10 term+city variations and spending a LOT of time on each one making it truly different from the others.  Claim and optimize your Google maps listing in each city, build up content relevant to that city alone, build links from local sources like Yelp or other websites that will portray a strong local connection. I do not recommend building out 300+ term+city pages.  Start with 5 and see if it really makes sense. Two articles I recommend you read in full : Ranking for Keyword + Cityname in Multiple Geographies Local Search Ranking Factors

Thanks Mark I should have known screeming frog did it, I have just checked and it is just what I need Thanks mate

Thanks for the help Simon. The other post has a lot of helpful information. Cheers!