I was hunting down a few templates today. I'm trying to learn how to create my own WP templates. While I was hunting through some of the code I found this
Code:
<!-- please don't remove the following code, it doesn't affect your blog design -->
<form id="usrsearch" name="usrsearch" style="overflow:hidden;width:2px;height:1px">
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</form>
<!-- end of code -->
I imagine that it is done for the purpose of getting backlinks to the listed webpage. My goal in creating WP templates would be to get backlinks to my site and usually I see that the template writer just ads a credit link in the footer. I was planning on just adding my link in the footer, but this way seems quite effective as the listed page has a PR 5. The link does not show up on the page nor does it affect the blog design.
I was just curious what people in the blogging community thought about this method, or if anyone knows of a backlash that may come from using this method.