Why Businesses Should Link Back to the Web Designer’s Web Site; It’s a Gift to Yourself!

Photo is “Gifts” by taintfair, (Flickr, Creative Commons).

Recently, I came across some online bickering about whether web development and web design companies should place link-backs on the web sites they work on. Surprisingly, the more impassioned rants I came across were against this practice, citing everything from “it’s not really good for SEO, anyway” to “that’s free advertising for a company…