Recently I was asked by a good friend of mine: “How can I hide a link from visitors but display it to Google?” and immediately words display: none; flow out of my mouth. But the longer I think about it, I think of more and more useless different ways to hide a link on your web page.
Let’s not get involved with why would you do something like Create a hidden Link on your website, but instead let’s just jump to the solutions right away.
The most obvious way to hide a link is by using a bit of CSS to hide the link by setting display to none:
This is a <a href="https://newbloghosting.com/" style="display: none">Hidden</a> Link
And instead of This is a Hidden Link you will see This is a Link, because the CSS is telling your browser not to display the link.
However, if you check the source code of the page you will see the link is there:
Another way to hide a link is to hide it in plin sight by matching the color of the background with the color of the link, e.g. white text on a white background.
<p style="background:white"><a href="#" style="color: white!important"></a></p>
Yet another way is to make hyperlinks that are tiny, like 1-pixel high text:
<p style="font-size:1px!important"><a href="#" white!important"></a></p>
Here is how small 1px text really is:
Yes, it is so small it’s invisible!
Hiding links in something like the comma, or period in the middle of a paragraph of text is probably the easiest (laziest) way to hide links (there is a link on the comma in this sentence).
This is the most complete option in this list, to use both CSS and JS to hide a link.
<a href="#" onMouseOver="windows.status=' ';return:true;" style="cursor:text;color:black'text-decoration:none;">hidden</a>
Here is an example: this is a hyperlink but looks like ordinary text