I think site credits are old school and unprofessional. As you discovered, you won't find many great sites with site credits, certainly not in the footer that appears on every page. The client has paid you to build them a site and so I think it wrong to indefinitely exploit the relationship by in effect advertising on their site. (Hosted products/services are a different matter. Bartering for some advertising via a commercial site's established advertising channels is another story too.) Rather, leverage the success by way of a case study, and share it on <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>. And most folks who really want to know who developed a site will contact your client via the site (be sure they like you enough to refer you), which is better than a cold lead anyway.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Sam Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam@samcohen.com">sam@samcohen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>I recently decided it would be a good idea to ask my clients if it would be ok to add a site credit on their site linking back to my site. Well, most agreed, but one of my bigger clients balked and asked for examples of other sites that give a site credit to the developer. Well, I thought this would be easy to find an example, but I'm having a hard time finding larger sites that give the development shop any credit for the site, at least in the footer (as opposed to buried somewhere)<br>
<br>Just wondering if anyone has any examples of site credits for site developers, either in the footer or somewhere else? This client is willing to do it, just wants to know what the common practice is. <br><br>Also, do most of you even ask for a credit on the sites you develop? Is giving a site credit to the developer is a thing of the past or something only done for small sites? And if they don't put it in the footer, where would it go?<br>
<br>Thanks, <br><br>Sam<br><br clear="all">Sam Cohen, Principal<br><a href="http://new-media-solutions.com" target="_blank">New Media Solutions</a><br>Drupal Training & Services<br><br><a href="http://twitter.com/samcohen" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/samcohen</a><br>
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