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Yes it is the News Ticker you provided the link to. To be fair I don't understand what is happening with my anchor text and it may have had nothing to do with the news ticker now I look at it. All my anchor text within my site now seems to be "HOME" at the moment! However, I am very grateful you pointed out the ticker is OK.

Thank you, That put my mind at rest. I was also concerned about the wayback as I have used it many times to find out details of an old page when the google cache doesn't show me what I need.  So an extra thank you for that info link as well.

The most blunt answer humanly possible to this: Here's the thing, ethics and Google rules aside (sorry Matt C.), if Google eventually catches this site selling links, they will likely penalize you for having bought one. ...so... Google is very successful ($29 billion in 2010) and it is almost all based on the quality of their search results. If the penalties did not match the benefits, you are putting this revenue at risk (again, $29 billion). How do you think they will take that? How would you?

Looks like it's good. I have the same problem with Facebook, so I added the url in the FB embed code but Google does it automatically. You're fine :).