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Is there a safe way to hide links?

by LaurenAmy
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I am working on a side project for a company which has a website with a great domain age, high page rank which basically dominates every single main keyword or topic related to their niche in Google. However, this company is a local business, and the aim of the website is to direct customers to their actual offline shop. This side project is basically an e-commerce website selling the products they sell in-store at heavily reduced internet rates, so they don't want people to know that the two companies/websites are related, in case people visit the offline store demanding certain products at the special internet prices.

I can't help think that getting a few links from the original website's homepage would be pretty beneficial to the e-commerce website, as it is completely relevant, but obviously we can't create links that people can see or they'll see that the two companies are linked. Is there a safe way to hide links, or atleast make them less obvious to a visitor? As I know link hiding can often be a bit of a dodgy tactic.
#hide #links #safe #seo
  • Profile picture of the author Langeani
    Are you using Wordpress?

    If so, you can use plugin pretty links, which will allow you to create redirection links as you wish.

    Like www.yoursite.com/yourlink redirects to wherever you want it to redirect
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by allininternet View Post

      So far I know link hiding is difficult task. You can hide sometimes by using short URL. You can create short easily url from http://goo.gl site. Then, you can use it.
      Originally Posted by Langeani View Post

      Are you using Wordpress?

      If so, you can use plugin pretty links, which will allow you to create redirection links as you wish.

      Like www.yoursite.com/yourlink redirects to wherever you want it to redirect

      Neither of those things is what she is talking about.

      There is no real way to get the SEO benefit of a link while hiding it from public view. You certainly could put a link and just change the font color to match the background. That would accomplish what you want, but you run the risk of getting the site in trouble with Google for doing that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Langeani
    You're right Mike. I re read it and now I got it

    Another way could be using images with links... a tiny dot or something at the very end, or footer, with a link.
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  • Profile picture of the author netanel23
    You could make an inconspicuous image link, it'll pass the pagerank and if placed intelligently won't be noticeable.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You could use CSS. What you do is use display:none in the CSS & wrap the HTML link in a <div> with the <div> ID set to the display:none CSS. One or two links is no big deal, just don't use it for a bunch of links per page.

    If your paranoid you could also hide the link in CSS Tabs on your webpage (use CSS, not javascript), instead of the display:none. The link would get buried on the page for traffic while Google would still follow the link.

    Another option might be to simply advertise the eCommerce site like your selling banner space.
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  • Profile picture of the author DiggitySEO
    netanel23 gave you the correct way to go.
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