How to find Hidden Link

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Lary121, May 15, 2009.

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    everyone is saying hidden links are bad and are part of black hat SEO. Everywhere it is stated as a link that cannot be understood by the visitors.

    Now I am really confused with the explanation that how to identify that?
    Please help me with some simplified version with which I can use to identify hidden link
     
    Lary121, May 15, 2009 IP
  2. Slincon

    Slincon Well-Known Member

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    Links that are put in divs or objects or elements that are hidden are considered black hat, because they are being inserted for the purpose of giving link juice to a site or are intended for only the search engine to see.

    An example is:
    <div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.mylinkosaurusrex.com">Link</a></div>
    Code (markup):
    Google detects that as an attempt to hide links and may penalize a site for doing this (assuming it does a few other things that google flags as suspicious).

    You can use css to hide links or to disguise a link, and google can't detect that yet - doing that is considered grey hat meaning that Google can't pick it up and it's murky on whether this is ok or not. It's generally considered bad to do that however.

    You might want to read this.
     
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  3. seokingdom07

    seokingdom07 Banned

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    check for css styles...
     
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    use seo quake ext links to view all links in any page
     
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    You should know a litter about HTML and css to do it
     
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    dsuraj Peon

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    view source code ahd find href tags
     
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    marsian Active Member

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    I disagree with that. almost all the tableless design uses (hidden) drop-down links. may be google considers external hidden links as black hat but internal hidden links are too common.
     
    marsian, May 17, 2009 IP