I was wondering if someone could help me with identifying if cloaking or something deceptive is going on here.

Another site that is reciprocal linking to my site uses the code:

<a class="." href="http://www.mississauga4sale.com/" target="_blank"><b>Mississauga Real Estate Homes, Properties &amp; MLS Listings for Sale</b>
</a>

does this make the link above java and hence cloaked and not indexed properly by search engines, specifically google?

My reciprocal linking software is saying this is not a valid linkback, do you agree?

I have done some research on this <a class="." href="http://www... etc. but cannot figure out if it is a deceptive link back or not.

Your comments and advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark

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Post the url without using a live link. (just don't use the www. and it won't parse the URL as a link)
I would need to look at the CSS of the site.

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I wondered about giving them a linkback in this forum, thanks for the tip.

The url of their link page is:
ezmoving.com/topic_Realestate.html

Your help is greatly appreciated.

It's possible that I am just missing something here or my reciprocal links manager maybe just looks for <a href=" tag and if it's not there, then it assumes that it's a bad link.

Thanks,
Mark

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Although not easily identified by looking at the code, they are using a javascript for outgoing links. You can see it here: http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools...ealestate.html
My opinion, a worthless link to your site.

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Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your thoughts. I looked at the http://www.gritechnologies.com/tool and will have to review it more, looks like all the links are rendered as java or so it says at the top of the page.

Are there any other programs that can check a page and tell me if if the links are java or html?

Thanks again,
Mark

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Kyle I must be missing something as to how you are saying the site is using JS. I looked at the site/tool you used and all of the JS is added by the tool to make it so the link goes to the "diagnostic view" of that page. That JS has nothing to do with what the site is doing, but with the tool that was used. Am I missing something?

a class="." is just a way to format the text using css and most times is nothing to worry about.

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Ken,
Yes you are correct about how Poodle Predictor shows them as javascript links. I was assuming that program worked the same as another spider simulator which no longer works properly. That program showed the links as they were read by a search engine.
Oh well, I'm not perfect.

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I just noticed that I used rolling eyes which means sarcastic, that was not my intent, I thought it was a cool looking grin, but did not notice the 'sarcastic' part until now, sorry,
Mark

see, I just re-edited my response, now I am embarrassed and should use the right smiley

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I am wondering if the fact that the links are <a class="." href=... rather than <a href=... class="." that my link checker is picking up a bad link.

I will keep researching this and try and solve this puzzle once and for all.

Thanks,
Mark

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Your link checker my be having an issue as the links look fine to me. I also did open up the css and it is purely formatting so nothing to worry about.

Kyle, just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something. Trust me when I am not perfect either, heck nobody is. The reason I realized it was I quickly ran my site through it and the JS links were there and I know my links are clean.

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