Dangerous WP Themes
I just had a problem that I thought you should be aware of because it could be happening to you and you won't even know it.
I recently started a small niche site that will rank in the SE's, so I found a theme, blah blah ya know, the usual WP set up.
But after I installed my theme, I found that when I viewed the source of my page I had links to some spam sites that were totally hidden! I scoured the theme files and couldn't find for the life of me where they were coming from.
They had this tag on them:
<div style="visibility:hidden; display:none">
So I finally figured it out and found that when I installed the theme it changed my general-template.php file.
So anyway, if you're using some sort of free theme you found somewhere on the web, I would highly recommend checking the source of your page to make sure there are no hidden spam links in there.
I'm not sure if Google penalizes for such a thing, but even if they don't I'm not going to help some spammer...and you shouldn't either!
If Goog does penalize for this though it's definitely something to get fixed right away, so check now!
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