Can you find the hidden backlink?

by Ross02
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Hi Everyone,
I was doing some back link research and found this site Ecotextile News - the environmental magazine for the global textile industry supply chain homepage has a link with the anchor text "rattan garden furniture", however it is nowhere to be seen.

When you do a ctrl+f search on the page for "rattan garden furniture" is says there are two results. I did an inspect properties to see if it was hiding in an image but I couldn't see anything (although i'm no code wiz so it could be in there somewhere).

Anyone got any ideas where these links could be hiding?

Thanks
#backlink #find #hidden #link
  • Profile picture of the author Ross02
    It's in here too. Do you think its hidden in the twitter widget?

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  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    Its there, but appears to be hidden via css
    The page was probably hacked to do it.

    They might have purchased some blackhat hack package or something like that.

    Do a google spam report to alert them to what is happening. A lot of good and legit sites are going to be hacked for this and they will have no idea that they have been hacked until they get penalized for linking to banned or bad sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    All you have to do is look at the text version of the page.

    There's two keyword anchor-text links in the footer.
    • Rattan Garden Furniture
    • Rattan Furniture

    Code:
    <div class="ssupport"><a href="http://www.brooksrattangardenfurniture.co.uk" title="Rattan Garden Furniture">Rattan Garden Furniture</a></div>

    Code:
    <div class="ssupport"><a href="http://www.supremerattanfurniture.co.uk" title="Rattan Furniture">Rattan Furniture</a></div>




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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    This is exactly why I tell folks they should first learn HTML If they want to learn SEO, this was extremely easy to figure out.

    I guess the OP was legit & not just dropping links.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ross02
      Thanks for the help - I will definitely be brushing up on my HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author sulbha
    Nice information thanks for sharing.
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