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New Perspective studio
Ive recently come across a issue , i developed a website for a client, its been a few months and the client cant seem to make up her mind in what she wants for her website. I offered advice as a have a decent knowledge of SEO , social marketing and all the rest ( you kind of have to when you are competing in serps for web design queries because all of your competition knows seo too ).
The last week she emailed me telling me that she had enlisted the services of a copy-righter , marketing seo specialist and that i was to contact her....I was taken aback and phoned my client immediately, she could tell i was upset, i found that this person , was a friend of hers she also explicitly stated that this woman knew many developers in My town, cassically saying i was from now on a option...
I phoned her ( the copyrighter) since we were now to collaborate , i had no issue with this, ( she had very compelling writing skills on her site ) but over the phone she told me i need to supply her links of my work, so she can see if i can work with her as a developer !!! I was insulted one to many times. I need to prove myself to somebody who clearly doesnt know what they are doing. My seo and content is far Superior to hers , the site i had created for my client ( which i had not even started a seo expet for some good onpage practices) has Superior structure and ranking than this "Seo Content Writers" site.
I could not even find them on google unless actually entering their website name ( this is a established company , who boast about seo and marketing ). Secondly and this is irrelevant but it was a WordPress site , non responsive with a yoast plugin ( basically a seo and writing assist tool for beginners ).
She then told me that if she uses another developer my footer credits will be removed , fortunately this woman never paid in full for her website ( only the deposit) and i am now going to decline the rest and take the site back as i have 3 clients waiting for websites. My contract states that the site remains my property until paid in full.
I makes me angry that i sat down with this client provided everything she needed as a developer, got her site ranking on the top of google for its queries , and now some smooth talking company is going to come push me off all of my hard work. I did this as a favour for a friend , so i grossly undercharged and all the months of changes from static site to dynamic site and back again , i never asked for a extra cent, i thought, u know its a good site and the value of it in my portfolio is good enough i will just have to be more carefiul in the future about pricing. I wrote it off as inexperience.. But now i may not even get my portfolio piece. And being more experienced im kind of thinking take the site back redo the content and sell it to one of your waiting clients for what its really worth.
My question is in future if somebody has paid in full, can a content writer contract another developer and simply remove my copyright and credit link on the page?
i mean i can understand they bought it and it is now their property..... but ive also heard that there are ways to preserve your footer credit even f you sell the site. i have worked with one before and i know they sub contract to developers. Is there a clause i can add to my contract to protect me from this?
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