Footer links tend to be the lowest value links in a site as people tried to spam them years ago, plus those types of links can come from a range of sites that aren't necessarily related to web design.

You would be better off linking on your company name as that would highlight your brand to people looking at who designed your client sites I.e. you.

In addition, by trying to link off a term like web design you are presenting Google with an unnatural link profile. Most link profiles are predominantly the URL of your site or your brand name, with a smattering of other keywords based on the content you have shared. Links like web design are just to obviously spammy to ever generate real value.

If I was you I'd concentrate less on this and create a blog or something and talk about specifics about how your web design can help businesses. Create case studies thy mention businesses in your region. Ensure your office is in Google Local and your clients give you good reviews on Google local, that will help more than those links at the bottom of the page.

lol



Also: Why the fuck does Google think I'm blocking two pages with my robots.txt??

b0r1s wrote:

What's your URL?

Mine? I'll PM it.

Can I see it, too? Just out of curiosity. I'll tell you mine, when I finally get one.

This is a serious question, btw:

AJ_ wrote:

Why the fuck does Google think I'm blocking two pages with my robots.txt??

Yeah, that's fine by me. I assume it's Drupal based?

You in the community at all? There been any mention of when v8 might be finished?

£820 a year?! What the hell are you buying Microsoft.com

AJ_ wrote:

Waiting for version 8 to launch before I start on it in ernest, though, mainly because it's based on Symfony and I fucking love Symfony.

That is quite interesting...

The one thing I kinda hated about Drupal, was how nasty it looked at it's base... 
Now I'm no PHP expert, and I can just about understand advanced theming, but doing anything fancy with Drupal views is undeniably painful work... 

But Drupal's WYSIWYG OOP CMS system is vastly underrated. A little esoteric, but it has a LOT of potential... You can just about create ANY type of website with Drupal if you plan it correctly, but the work needed to theme pages currently terrifies noobs and can frustrate experts...  

If they couple the 'Fisher Price' DB admin tools to a sensible MVC system, it will instantly look like a better prospect than Wordpress, and it's (somewhat) inflexible content creation suite, and may well start to look like an enterprise project target...

Mod74 wrote:

The other thing that puts off new users with Drupal is it's almost total emptyness of features you'd expect to find, like even something as simple as a WYSIWYG. They stick resolutely to the core distribution only containing core.

Ah... yeah...

The last time I looked at Drupal, 7 was in beta, so all the interesting modules were only available for version 6. Quite an education, that.

Apparently, this - http://www.mtv.co.uk/ - is Drupal. You can confirm it by examining the markup. : )

dynamiteReady wrote:

The other thing that puts off new users with Drupal is it's almost total emptyness of features you'd expect to find, like even something as simple as a WYSIWYG. They stick resolutely to the core distribution only containing core.

Ah... yeah... The last time I looked at Drupal, 7 was in beta, so all the interesting modules were only available for version 6. Quite an education, that. Apparently, this - http://www.mtv.co.uk/ - is Drupal. You can confirm it by examining the markup. : )

The Whitehouse and The Economist are other big gets.

Closer to home http://www.newcastle.gov.uk also use it, which helps me loads when describing the set up. Mention Drupal and 9 faces out of 10 screw into puzzlement.

I still find some modules that would be super useful that haven't been updated from 6-7. God I hope the D8 modules are automatically or easily compatible. I should know that really. If they're not F that S.

By the by, sorry for going on, but everyone who "knows" me knows if I like something I get a bit fannish about it, ahem.

Wow, that's really quite astounding. I bet I could find a Parish council with a more interesting design.

And that's based on Drupal as well I notice. Scalability, yeah boi!

How is that a theme issue?

(I ask the question, but I know very little about Wordpress (spit))

That seems like an odd problem. Maybe someone here with Wordpress skill could have a very quick look?

b0r1s wrote:

£820 a year?! What the hell are you buying Microsoft.com

It was for a .ki domain. Not as bad as .tt though, those are about £4,500 a year.

b0r1s wrote:

Take a look at Craft and Twig. I haven't used it yet, but looks interesting. I installed Craft had a quick play around, but haven't got time yet to learn a new templating language.

http://buildwithcraft.com - great UI for a CMS, and a Live Preview that works very well

http://twig.sensiolabs.org - Looks quite powerful

Not tried out Craft, bit Twig is part of Symfony, so I've used that a fair bit. I always used to say there was no point in templating engines for PHP, since the language is essentially one, but Twig has managed to change my mind.

As an aside: I'm surprised there aren't more CMS' using in-place editing.

Ha ha Ling is famous in the car leasing sector. They know what they are doing and that terrible design is intentional.