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Do "Hosted By" Links Help?

by DavidFeldman
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Do "Hosted By DavidFeldman" links (linked to my site) help with SEO? Also would they help (or even hurt) if the site I am placing them on has a very low Domain Authority? I have some clients who are small time local sites who don't need/have DA nor SEO, but they would agree to put my link on their site.

All my clients are totally honest and respectable. Just small-time things, that's all.

Let me know what you think.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ryan3
    Originally Posted by DavidFeldman View Post

    Do "Hosted By DavidFeldman" links (linked to my site) help with SEO? Also would they help (or even hurt) if the site I am placing them on has a very low Domain Authority? I have some clients who are small time local sites who don't need/have DA nor SEO, but they would agree to put my link on their site.

    All my clients are totally honest and respectable. Just small-time things, that's all.

    Let me know what you think.
    If you see others using them in your niche, they probably work.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikesmithnew
    If the sites are relevant to your business, it will help. Also try to get only one link from a website (Home Page). Site-wide links will hurt you.
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    • Profile picture of the author DavidFeldman
      Interesting. Why do you say that site-wide links will hurt me?

      Drupal and WordPress ship with "powered by ..." in their footer by default and many themes for both of those also ship with a footer link. You are suggesting that all of these are bad practice?
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    The following article, although written several years ago, is still very relevant today. It talks about what may be seen as an unnatural link. Scroll down to (or search the text for) "Widely distributed links in the footers of various sites" and ponder what is said there - https://moz.com/ugc/what-is-an-unnat...ity-guidelines

    The question to ponder is whether the site intended to link to you or whether you placed the link, yourself, hoping it would not be removed by the webmaster.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by DavidFeldman View Post

    Do "Hosted By DavidFeldman" links (linked to my site) help with SEO? Also would they help (or even hurt) if the site I am placing them on has a very low Domain Authority? I have some clients who are small time local sites who don't need/have DA nor SEO, but they would agree to put my link on their site.

    All my clients are totally honest and respectable. Just small-time things, that's all.

    Let me know what you think.
    A site's DA score is not going to hurt you. It doesn't matter. Google doesn't use DA for anything. They never look at it and could care less what a domain's DA score is on Moz.

    The links might help. Really depends on the strength of the sites you are being linked from.

    Personally, I think unless you are paying them for the link or agreed to it as part of your service, putting a link on someone's site is wrong. You are advertising on their site. They should be compensated for that.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I found a guy a while back that only did SEO for real estate sites, he had the client footer links and was smart about how he pulled it off. His own site was a 50/50 mix of real estate and SEO keywords. Relevancy makes life easier when doing SEO. It was also a decent site, no keyword stuffing.
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