How to disguise active links without being labeled an SEO Spammer

[kellio48]

(Credit to Danial Tan)
If you’re using SEO on your blog it’s always a good idea to include a backlink to an authority site on your posts and pages. (I use Wikipedia.com).

However too many links can look spammy… but there is a way in which to make that link not appear as a link to your visitor by using a little

HTML which disguises that link and can also be used on any link. (You use your keyword as anchor text)

Here’s how to do it by placing the following code into your sentence!

<a style= "text-decoration:none;color:black;" <a href="http://authority site"ref=nofollow">Anchor text=keyword</a>

The following is an example of how I used this using the keyword “fish finder”

This is page 1 of <a style="text-decoration:none;color:black;"<ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_finder"ref=nofollow">Fish Finder.</a>

Explanation:
style="text-decoration:none"=> removes the underline
color:black=> This is your normal font color (Obviously you would use the same color as the text you’re using on the page.
rel="nofollow"=> Saves losing link juice.

(Note: The Wikipedia page I’m linking too is the page on which Wikipedia explains what a fish finder is but is not necessary as long as it’s a link to an authority site.)
This will make the link looks exactly like normal text.
By using this method, you can point out a link to an authority site for SEO purposes without concern over your visitors leaving your site because of too many links or loosing credibility.

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[Michael55555]

that seems like it could cause problems later on... maybe not though.. interesting tip... probably wont' use it.. maybe just will use no grey-hat stuff..

white hat only.. maybe the hat gets a bit dirty over time, but it is still fundamentally white..

[Sandee]

why dont you show exactly what the link target is? hiding links less you are doing Autoblog or something without your present.

[kellio48]

Originally Posted by Sandee

why dont you show exactly what the link target is? hiding links less you are doing Autoblog or something without your present.

It's wholly and solely for SEO purposes in that linking to an authority site makes the search engines but disguising it makes your page look less spammy by reducing the number of visible active links.
It's a bit like makeup

[dburk]

Hi kellio48,

First let me say that I don't totally agree with the assertion that linking to quality resources as spammy. Personally I see that as the precise opposite of spam. People generally like it and search engines definitely like it. Having said that, I do think there is merit in your approach in certain circumstances.

When it come to conversion optimization, focusing your readers attention on specific elements of your page, in the precise order intended, is a valid and important principle of optimizing the persuasion process. Your method of de-emphasizing certain elements over others can play a useful role in focusing your readers attention where you want it.

I prefer to separate style from content and recommend using a class in a separate stylesheet.

Stylesheet snippet:

    a.external {text-decoration: none; color:#000}

Content:

<a class="external" href="http://authority_site .com">Keyword Anchor</a>

This makes it much more manageable when you have lots of pages to maintain.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Google has always had the ability to weight the value of such elements in the exact proportion, as rendered by your browser (just as a human reader might), and this has been a part of their algorithm from their earliest days. In fact, this feature of Google was discussed in the original Backrub paper.

[JohnMcCabe]

Originally Posted by kellio48

It's wholly and solely for SEO purposes in that linking to an authority site makes the search engines but disguising it makes your page look less spammy by reducing the number of visible active links.
It's a bit like makeup

Sounds more like a twist on the old keyword stuffing technique of ending your page with a big block of keywords in tiny type the same color as the background.

Why do I get the idea that it's less about "looking spammy" and more about hiding opportunities to leave your page?