How to hide irritating reciprocal links.

[Nathan]

I was just thinking of an innovative way to hide reciprocal links on my blog. As many of you are no doubt aware, most link directories require that you give them a reciprocal link on your blog, but you may not like the way it looks.

Enclose the links with the following structure:

<div style="display: none;">
Links go in here.

</div>

The links are now completely gone for all apparent purposes. However, they will still leak PR from your blog. Now if there was only a way to make an entire <div> nofollow!

[sadiessay-so]

Now why didn't I think of that?! I'll take care of this tomorrow...

[Nathan]

Technically, the link directories are just going to search your blog for the code, they aren't going to realize that it is enclosed within a hidden <div>. Pretty cool!

[sadiessay-so]

Yeah, I know! That's why I can't believe as a designer I never thought of this! lol...

[sukosaki]

That is a nice tip.

[Arcticulates]

What a great tip. I ended up putting most of them on their own page, because it was too hard to put them on neatly anywhere else, it distracted from the blog look I was aiming for... Thanks for sharing.. When I finally get time I just may fix that now.

[Takwa]

I had to set up a link page for them and hoped none of my visitors ever visits, as their wordings are long and annoying!

[Nathan]

Yeah, hopefully this will keep them out of the way while still meeting their terms.

[myqute]

Originally Posted by NathanKP

I was just thinking of an innovative way to hide reciprocal links on my blog. As many of you are no doubt aware, most link directories require that you give them a reciprocal link on your blog, but you may not like the way it looks.

Enclose the links with the following structure:

<div style="display: none;">
Links go in here.

</div>

The links are now completely gone for all apparent purposes. However, they will still leak PR from your blog. Now if there was only a way to make an entire <div> nofollow!

Wow! Sneaky! But isn't it also kind of unethical? Would Google penalise for hiding links? I heard they would so.... hmmm....

[petercasier]

I was just thinking of an innovative way to hide reciprocal links on my blog.

The average blog directory need two things: Links and visibility.

The links get their own pageranking up, thus the search engines point more visitors to them, thus up goes revenue through advertisement. Even with the <div> trick, the link from your blog to them remains.

The visibility through icons helps them "spread viral": One blogger discovers a directory on the blog of another, gets curious and checks out the directory. And subscribes.

I agree with Nathan, that having a myriad of directories on your blog does not look nice. Apart from the fact some actually require a script to be installed, and not just an icon, slowing down the download speed of your blog..

I did as Arcticulates did: I put all blog directories on a separate page. Know though that many 'free' directories fail to detect any links which are on a page of your blog, other than the root... I worked around that by registering with the link on the homepage, but then moved them.

P.