Hidden links

Could they get penalized?

[specter]

I would add in my pages some links with the following attribute:

<a href="http://www.otherdomain.com/page1.htm" style="visibility: hidden">

What do you think about guys?
Is there the risk of any kind of penalty by SEs?

Thanks

[Cartman]

Safer way to do it would be to put the tags in a seperate CSS file so it's not so blatently obvious. Why do you want to hide the links in the first place?

[Crush]

The only reason for hiding links is because you have too many of them you bad man ;)

Well a manual search will get you. So your choice.

[specter]

The only reason for hiding links is because you have too many of them you bad man ;)

Not exactly.I need a minimum of text links to be better recognized by SEs (as suggested from my SEO software).
So as these links would be unuseful for me (and my visitors)and they haven't nothing to do with the rest of the text, I would hide them...

[topr8]

unfortunately, you completely misunderstand what hiding them with css will do.

[topr8]

hiding them in the way you describe will only hide them from users not from search engine spiders

[specter]

Exactly.Is that I want.

I'm interested to create links for SEs ,not for users!

In the same time I wouldn't be penalized for that.

[topr8]

ok that will work then...

only thing is.

....

I'm interested to create links for SEs ,not for users!

In the same time I wouldn't be penalized for that.

the two phrases are not compatible, in other words, you will be penalised if you site is high profile because someone will report you.

[specter]

the two phrases are not compatible, in other words, you will be penalised if you site is high profile because someone will report you.

I have some difficult to follow you...

I would to create links to be more easily detected from the spiders but I need to hide them because they haven't a sense for the user...

Do the spiders penalize the following string?

<a href="http://www.otherdomain.com/page1.htm" style="visibility: hidden">

It's the only answer I wish.

[sem4u]

Spiders won't penalize your site for this but would it pass a manual review if you get reported?

[specter]

would it pass a manual review if you get reported?

What do you mean exactly?

[topr8]

put simply.

every search engine thinks what you want to do is NOT OK.

the only question is if you will get caught for doing it and how long that will take.

i think if your site is in a competative area then your competitors will report you, so you might be banned (or you might not)

[sem4u]

If your site starts ranking highly and uses techniques that are against search engine guidelines, like hiding links, then there is a good chance that you will be reported for spamming.

Now these reports may be ignored by the search engines or your site could get banned. I'm not going to preach what is right or wrong, but if you use spammy techniques there is a chance that your site could get banned.

[specter]

No one answered to my main question:

Is the said attribute considered spam by the spiders?

Or,the risk would be to get "materially" reported by human beings for spamming?

[victor]

Hidden links are spam. No question.

There may be some debate about how good current bots are at recognising some ways links have been hidden.

But there is no debate that they are serious about finding and penalizing hidden links.

Or that they are getting better at it.

Your technique may work today, or it may not. It is unlikely to work in the near future.

[Longhaired Genius]

Spiders don't "consider" anything; they are machines. Is what you are planning to do considered wrong by the human builders and operators of the spiders? Yes.

[specter]

Thanks to all guys!

I appreciate very much your participation and I've collected many interesting opinions.

I will find another "honest" way to improve my rankings...

Thanks again.