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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the quick feedback. 
This clears up things for me a bit.

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi all,

I'm very new to SEO and still learning a lot.

Is it considered a black hat tactic to wrap a link in a DIV tag, with display set to none (hidden div), and what can the repercussions be?

From what I've learnt so far, is that this is a very unethical thing to be doing, and that the site hosting these links can end up being removed from Google/Bing/etc indexes completely. Is this true?

The site hosting these links is a group/parent site for a brand, and each hidden link points to one of the child sites (similar sites, but different companies in different areas).

Thanks in advance!