OK so perhaps ‘hidden” was the wrong term now that I understand a little more, maybe I should call them deceptive. These links are more than just credits they are links leading to other web sites about different subjects (Homes, Boating & Selling Linen)
There was a big discussion on a forum last night that if Google can’t clearly define what your site is about it may leave it alone and not index it. Links to other sites about other subjects can not be helping me get indexed.
I’m all for giving credit where credit is due. But as a rule of joining the wordpressdirect & 30 day challenge communnity the themes were supossed to be clean of these types of links.
I need to get rid of them…any suggestions