The Other Search Engines

**gl3nnx** · 11-09-2006, 04:25 AM

Hello guys, I have a question regarding backlink,
My friend was askin me a favor to put his site link on my website for one week only.. our website are both web design.. but his site is about "porn web designer".
I want to link my friend on my site, but I want to hide his link from my site visitors.

Do you think if i am goin to hide his link using CSS (visibility, etc.), google bot will STILL follow his link? is it safe and allowed? Do you think its a form of blackhat? thanks.

**stOx** · 11-09-2006, 06:13 AM

it's a bad idea to show something to google but not to your visitors. Google doesn't like that.

**Puneet_Seo** · 11-09-2006, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stOx

it's a bad idea to show something to google but not to your visitors. Google doesn't like that.

Yeah, he is right ,

i totally agree with it.

Regards/Puneet M

**gl3nnx** · 11-10-2006, 07:06 AM

thanks, but one more question,
If hiding the content is bad, what about sites that using DHTML menus, rollovers, etc.. that hides the menu content..
do you think there is a possibility that search engine will punish these kind of sites?

**stOx** · 11-10-2006, 08:06 AM

I doubt they would punnish them, because the point of DHTML menus isn't to hide content from users and show it to search engines.

but then DHTML menus are usually in the source somewhere anyway, So everyone can still see it, It only looks like a DHTML menu when rendered in a browser.

**trichnosis** · 11-10-2006, 09:08 AM

if you give your link <a href="klmkmfgfgı.html">bla bla</a> , you can follow it

**James-A** · 11-17-2006, 05:54 AM

stOx is right, DHTML menus aren't use to hide content from visitors.

No one can fool google for a long period, so don't dare to play your tricks with google.

**The Critic** · 11-17-2006, 06:17 AM

How could Google possibly find out unless they actually have somebody look at his site? All he would have to do is put this in his style sheet:

.link {display:none}

and then put the link as:

<a href="porno.site" class="link">keyphrase</a>

It's entirely innocuous and it seems unlikely that Google would actually pay people to browse every site they list to make sure they aren't cheating the system.

**captbarbell** · 11-23-2006, 06:23 AM

dont hide the link. Instead, just add it on the footer.

**stOx** · 11-23-2006, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Critic

How could Google possibly find out unless they actually have somebody look at his site? All he would have to do is put this in his style sheet:

.link {display:none}

and then put the link as:

<a href="porno.site" class="link">keyphrase</a>

It's entirely innocuous and it seems unlikely that Google would actually pay people to browse every site they list to make sure they aren't cheating the system.

Why would google have to pay anyone to do anything? It's right there in the source, a bot can read that. Besides, It's not beyond the realms of possibility that someone will file a spam report against his site for hiding links.

If you don't want to link to a site then don't link to it. trying to hide things makes you look unprofessional and does carry a risk of google finding out.