I have been using Rodney’s 404 Handler WordPress plugin on almost all my sites until today. While working on a site of mine I had to look at the source code of a page and guess what – a hidden link was showing up. I don’t do hidden links, but apparently someone else still thinks this is a way to do business on the Internet.
Rodney Shupe of shupe.ca is publishing his WordPress plugin with a hidden link back to his website. One of his other plugins apparently did the same, but it was uncovered and he implemented the option to at least turn this off. Well, even if that option is there, it still stinks.
This dude is putting other people’s hard work at risk by embedding a hidden link. We all know how Google hates that kind of stuff and I hope this posting helps to have Google delist his page from the index.Other plugins I use have a visible link and that is fair game, but this hidden stuff .. argh, burn in hell. Screenshot of Source code
I have submitted a report to Google’s SPAM team. If you are running the same plugin, please do the same through the Google Webmaster tools so that Rodney Shupe will no longer be able to get traffic to his website through spamming the search engines.
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