An old topic of web design by or site credit links – should you put them on web sites and if so, should they pass link juice?

So if I design a web site for you, can I put “site designed by Barry” and link that to my site? Trust me, you see this on probably 25% of the sites designed out there by smaller agencies.

Google’s John Mueller said you can put the link but “definitely put a nofollow rule for those links.” That is even if the site owner wants the link there, you should still nofollow it.

Here is the transcript of the video where it starts at 19:47:

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Jennifer Slegg first covered this and now there is some discussion at WebmasterWorld on the topic.

Personally, my company stopped doing this practice well before Google had the nofollow because I figured most larger agencies didn’t put this on sites they created. It looked a bit cheap.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld & Google+.