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[finditnow]

As SEO's can we place our parent site <meta name="author" content="Ioptimize, http://www.Ioptimizeblahblah.com/clients.htm">

and then have a list of links to all of our optimized sites or is this a no no?

Is this considered spam by Google?

How about puting the link on the bottom of each site also?

[agerhart]

Google won't have a problem with this, BUT, if I were you, I wouldn't do it.

I wouldn't want my competitors, Google, or any search engine to see that declaration of work, or my list of clients.

[tbear]

Don't know if I'd be keen on the taxman seeing it either :(

[Macguru]

Hi finditnow,

Welcome to the board!

So as the majority of search engines, Google dont care much about metatags. Whathever is written in those tags is almost a waste of time.

>>How about puting the link on the bottom of each site also?

Now your talking!

[martinibuster]

As a client, I wouldn't want my competitors to know that I am optimizing. And even worse, who is doing the optimizing.

Discretion is an issue when doing optimization work for a company. It's hush-hush.