The Core

Ok.  So I've been trolling the SEL comments over the last couple of days and having discussions with people about paid guest posts.  To me a link gained through offering anything is a paid link, now that could be with money, beer or free content, A is bartering with B to gain C. 
While arguing the point I ran some of these guys sites and clients through ahrefs and find they all have keyworded dofollow footer links on their clients sites.  SURELY this is advertising, surely this should be nofollow... Damn hypocrites. 

ARGH.

Some peoples nerve heh!

I dimly recall googleguy saying that web designers shouldn't add links to clients sites, sometime way back - probably 5 or 6 years ago, if they're annoying enough for you to want to p##s them off, I'll try and find it for you.

er - perhaps this - think it was more general than wordpress themed and in a forum, that I remember though - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/by-the-way-2/

yeah, but its an argument not worth having - everyone who claims to be "whitehat" has their own definition of whats acceptable and swears blind its ok.

also by any definition, if those are old links, then they could well have added them before sitewides and dofollows were 'outtawed' by Google. I don't think you can call it unethical not to go back and add nofollows in, although I know a few people who would.