How Hide My Domain From Website Owner?

[McJeff]

Hello,

I don't do this kind of stuff often but I have a site up and running and I have links to another website. Will that other website owner see my domain name if I start sending traffic from my site to his?

Let's say I have articles on my site linking to threads on BHW, will @Diamond Damien see my domain when users click on my links and land on his site?

If yes, how can I hide my domain so the site owner won't be able to see my site?

 

[Deleted member 1393709]

Using a shorter link

 

[McJeff]

Using a shorter link

bitly?

 

[Grudge]

They can see that the users are coming from your website from the Referer http header.
You can hide it by setting the anchor link to

rel="noreferrer"

 

[McJeff]

They can see that the users are coming from your website from the Referer http header.
You can hide it by setting the anchor link to

rel="noreferrer"

Can you elaborate how can I do that, my experience with link building is zero.

 

[Grudge]

Can you elaborate how can I do that, my experience with link building is zero.

The "basic" link would be like

 <a href="LINK"> TEXT </a>

That will set the referer header to your site when going to the LINK.
Now if you put the anchor tag using the rel it will look like this:

 <a href="LINK" rel="noreferrer"> TEXT </a>

When users click on that the referer header won't be added

 

[TheMarquis]

<a href="https://www.yoursite.com"
rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"
target="_blank">Click here to visit McJeff website.</a>

 

[tiiberius]

Cloaking the link mentioned above is one way. They will see the shortener in referring pages not your website. However, it is possible to see what is behind shortener so better use custom domain.

Other option are noreferrer and noopener tags inside <a> tag.