hidden links

Hello,

There are some links on my main page that are only there to pass pr. I do not want them to be visible, so I could use the same color and font as non link words, right?

Does Google frown upon such "hidden links"?
If yes, what do they do about it?

 

wow ya think? of course, you will get penalized or possibly banned!

read the google guidelines ...

thx
malcolm

 

ok,

sorry I did not make myself clear.

not hidden links.

my links are blue on my site, with black font for regular text; I can make a class of links which are black and green if hovered, right? so they do not appear to be links unless hovered, right?

is that ok????

edit: or even better, I could make a class of links which are black and bold; and green if hovered; so it looks like bold text, but it is a link; is it ok??

 

as long as its visible then they cant really say anything...

though you might want to consider making them "no follow" to protect
your outgoing PR

thx
malcolm

 

these links are there to pass pr as I said.

 

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Yh u can do it and this will not be spam

 

Won't be considered as a hidden links or even spam, but how ever outgoing links to irrelevant websites might hurt your website ranking dude

 

Ok,

I need to explain more, I guess.
I am not sending links to irrelevant urls, they are relevant.

The point is this: on my main page, I have some links in the text; they are do follow, they are relevant and their purpose is to pass juice. But I do not want my visitors to be distracted by these links. Even though there are not that many of them, some people do not like to see links in the middle of the text in the main page.

So what I want to do is give these link a black color, so there are not noticeable to the reader (but not invisible). I mean they see the text but do not know it is a link unless they hover it.

Is it ok for Google??

 

The links are visible so I do not think you will be banned.

 

Your asking how to code the links so they are a certain color correct.

Its pretty simple if done in CSS. Put this code before your closing head tag

<style>

a {text-decoration: none;}
a.special:link {color:black; background-color: transparent;}
a.special:visited {color: black; background-color: transparent;}
a.special:hover {color: green;}

</style>

Now go to the link that you would like these color and hover effects to work on and use the class tag class="special"

Example
<a class="special" href="http://www.yourlink.com">Your Text</a>

I hope this helps

Mike

 

Thank you for the code.

The question is "do you guys do that and is there a risk Google does not like it."

 

Hidden Links are strictly a NO NO.
They are normally used in BlackHat SEO.

 

how can you tell if google bans you?

 

I agree with you sir !!!
Google not allowed the Hidden Links in your site !!!
It's definitely Black Hat S.E.O !!!!!!!!

 

I think it will consider as hidden or spam

 

If the links are not visible (does not matter if in layers, frames or hidden with CSS styles), it is a fireproof way to get banned by Google - sooner or later. If you care about your website, don't do that

 

ok,

I will not do any hidden links.

Thank you

 

Wait a minute. Simply suppressing the underlining of the link text does not make a link "hidden". A hidden link is when the text or image used in the link is not visible to users. If the link text is clearly visible to users, you're fine.

 

OK,

I mean can you guys make up your mind.

The title of this thread is misleading.

By hidden link I do not mean hidden text.

I mean the text is visible but it isnot visible that it is a link (so people wont be tempted to click). Is it black hat or not??

 

thanks for the answer.. i also plan to do hidden backlink.. how about the size of font can we use for small size?