Hello, I am wondering if I put a 1x1 pixel link on a website will it register as a link on the google search engines
If you were Google, would you consider a 1x1px image link to be a useful link for the visitor, or would you think it was done by a sneaky webmaster trying to manipulate rankings. I can't think of a single reason why a 1x1px link would be useful to a human, so chances are your site will be penalised for doing this, sooner or later. To answer your question - yes, it probably will register as a link, though not as strong as a text link. But I think doing this is a very bad idea for reasons above.
If you're doing a link exchange then thats a bit creul Unless the other site is doing a single pixel'd one too.
I don't think it would be penalised because what about the millionaire scrtipt which sells 1x1 pixel links? If it registered to spiders as a link that is all that matters. Thanks
The millionaire script sells 10x10 pixel links, which is much more clickable than 1x1 pixel. Million dollar homepage is not trying to decieve the search engines. If they did decide to sell 1x1 pixel ads instead of 10x10 pixel, they would probably get away with it because the intent is legitimate. If you can find a legitimate way to explain why you are using 1x1 images on your site, then I would say you are quite safe. Problem is, I can't think of a legitimate reason why you would use them. In all fairness, Google is pretty slow and slack at responding to spam requests so you might be safe. But I wouldn't take the risk on a site I cared about.
Google can even read the link as the following <a href="http://www.hkhangfong.com/seo/dir_submission.htm" target="blank"></a>. But that will not help your SEO.
Hey, Thanks for the tips, seo wise would it better to use something like this.. <div class="designertoo"><a href="http://www.mysite.com" title="my anchor text">yoursitehere</a></div>
if they are linking to your site like <a href="http://www.blabla.com">blabla( or image can come here)</a> , it be counted as backlink in google eyes . on the other side , there will be too many outgoing link on pixel ads page , so it will not effect to your seo or serp
I use a 0x0px iframe on all pages of my site. The page that is in the iframe is my stats script that collects the sites stats data. Would this make my site get penalized.
I have fixed some typical problem with pixel ads. I only sell 25 links and every image is 200 x 200 size.
Careful with the 0x0 dimensioned page elements. I do remember some older browsers (Netscape I think) were displaying those elements adding some sort of default width and height values instead of your "0" values. Reminds me of my early html lessons when tricking pay-per-click engines was easy and Iwas inventing 0x0 images and iframes, too Just so you are aware that old browsers might mess your site up because of those iframes, apparently invisible..
You will only get penalised for this kind of thing if you are trying to deceive Google. I hide Iframes on my site too. Any Google employee will see the Iframe is hidden so that my AJAX will work properly in IE, so I'm not at all worried about getting a penalty. It's purpose has nothing to do with search engines or rankings. The key thing is the intent. There are lots of legit reasons for having invisible content - font replacement for headings, javascript based tabs, CSS drop-down menus, javascript popups, etc etc. Google does not want to penalise these sites. If you are using invisible elements to hide content or links from the user or to try and get better rankings, then this is probably black hat. Stuffing keywords into "display: none" divs or adding 1x1px links the user can't see is not a good idea.