Best way to hide links?

qlithe · Oct 9, 2019

Hey!

Is there any good working method for hiding outgoing links on a page?

YES! I know this is blackhat and is risky.

But what I'm looking for is a method that is not auto detected by the crawlers. Anyone got any experience of this in 2019? z-index undetected? font color same as background? maybe some javascript?

Thankful for any input!

Mr Positive · Oct 9, 2019

I think you should see how they hide it for pbns and implement it for your outgoing links

qlithe · Oct 9, 2019

Mr Positive said:
I think you should see how they hide it for pbns and implement it for your outgoing links

Who are they?

Im not talking about blocking crawlers.

Zera Api · Oct 9, 2019

You can make the links as No Follow that might help a bit

HustleTong · Oct 9, 2019

Why do you wish to keep it hidden in the first place?

BTATA · Oct 9, 2019

Why you want to do what google dont like.

seocrab · Oct 9, 2019

Do you mean cloaking? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

terrycody · Oct 9, 2019

qlithe said:
not auto detected by the crawlers

most weird requirement I've ever seen...

anyway, u can learn how to trap a crawler if u wish...

qlithe · Oct 9, 2019

HatArrows said:
You can make the links as No Follow that might help a bit

Not even close to what im trying to achieve

HustleTong said:
Why do you wish to keep it hidden in the first place?

BTATA said:
Why you want to do what google dont like.

Welcome to blackhatworld

seocrab said:
Do you mean cloaking? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355

No I want some outbound links not to be visible on the page

terrycody said:
most weird requirement I've ever seen...

anyway, u can learn how to trap a crawler if u wish...

Why is that? I am sure most methods for doing this is automatically detected, like cheap css tricks.

qlithe · Oct 14, 2019

So anyone doing this in 2019?

nightflower · Oct 14, 2019

Mr Positive said:
I think you should see how they hide it for pbns and implement it for your outgoing links

Those are two different things altogether.

OP, not many people are still doing this as crawlers are doing source crawls too and any sort of link will get picked up unless you tunnel it in which case, you’ll still get caught. I’m sure there are ways that people are getting by though.

GregFromMoonsy · Oct 15, 2019

qlithe said:
looking for is a method that is not auto detected by the crawlers

Few years back I have created a simple algorithm which was able to find such links by ... creating the web screenshot.

The idea was pretty easy - all background of links was changed by JS script after full site render for specific color.
As next step - simple test, if chosen color exists on image - link is visible.

If mentioned color not was exists on image - it was clear that links are hidden.
Very resource hungry algorithm, however no chance to hide even single link.
No matter which CSS/JS trick was used.

@qlithe Let's think about

Because Google have a lot of clever developers.
If I can create such algorithm - Google can too.

Cheers, Greg.

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