I use the Flexibility 3 theme. You can use it for free but they place 3 links in the footer of your site, often to insurance companies. They'll remove them if you buy the theme.

I'm about to roll out a good number of sites and I want my ON-PAGE SEO to be as good as I can get it.

My question is, do you think these links in the footer bring a bad first impression when Google finds your site for the first time? Any experiences with it affecting your rankings? Or is it dismissible?

Any opinions would be great. Thanks!