Does Google Index Commented Links?

[talismon]

We purchased a link on a popular site and they still have us up however I couldnt find the link today. I checked the source of the page and found our link is there but is "commmented out" - Does anyone know how Google or other crawlers treat this? I recieved a Google alert yesterday showing another link had been detected from this site so I am assuming Google still indexes commented out links - Is that right? or do they devalue those links?

Thanks

[DerekH]

I think it's generally accepted wisdom that if there is an HTML comment, it is ignored. It is, after all, a comment.

I don't think any Search Engine will read a comment and try to pretend that the comment is a link, and less still that it would process it.
What on earth would be the point of that?
DerekH

[Johan007]

You must not use Accessibility features for visually impaired for SEO. I hope this is something Google will help with and even go as far as to filter out ALT tags on none linking images.

[jbinbpt]

talismon,
Have you contacted them to ask the status of the paid link? If so what was the reason given for the commenting out.

jb