Links within web page

I want to add links into web page - links to a handfull of other Sites I have - purely for the purpose of gaining points within Search Engines that credit relevant links. I don't particularly want them to be particualrly visible. I also want them to be in the general form:
<tag>some relevant text<tag>
to enhance their effectiveness.

Obviously I don't want to do them in tiny text in background colour, but is there any sensible compromise or a particular way I haven't thought of so that they don't show to the viewer (or at least not too much?

Thanks in anticipation.

Hmmm I can understand one argument for doing this but I think mine is better If you are adding links to sites, fine try and hide them, but you mentioned they are also your sites, so why on earth hide them. If they are relevent to each other why in the heck don`t you just share the traffic around all of your sites and improve the flow through them all whilst pleasing the search engines????

maybe put them in a little table at the bottom of the page so you'd actually have to scroll to see them, then above the table just at the bottom of the screen say

links are below

then it won't look too crappy...and your links are still usable...


or you could put them in a little frame on one side or the other, or put them on a link page so people will have to want to go to them....

but really you make no sense....you don't want them visable but you do....make up your mind!!!

What he/she is trying to say is that the links shouldn't be invisible by putting them as 'hidden' or the same colour as the background, as search engines recognise this trick and count it against you. But the links should be practically invisible so that real people wont see them and search engine crawlers do.

If anybody wants to help, then feel free, but to be honest I wouldn't help on the grounds that this might get your page high in the search returns not through content, but trickery. And if there's one thing that annoys is a high placed contentless site.

Hmmm

I wondered if this question might invoke such responses ....I suppose it was a 'thinking out loud' question.

The other sites do indeed have quality content. However, when you work in a competitive environement sometimes it is wise not to show all your cards so clearly hence the desire not to make explicit all ones links to everyone.

Sometimes a dot with a hyperlink tag either side is used and is relatively invisible but one really wants the descriptive text with the tags on either side.

I just wondered if anyone in a similar situation had used a particualr tack. Anyway, thanks for your time and efforts.

R.

Yes, I know it's something that gets done, and gets done a lot... and it's unfortunate that people don't get a fair crack at the search engine rankings because some other site is using tricks, the thing is, if I suggest something then it means you'll be added to them, and thus the cycle will continue.

One thing you could do, to boost hyperlinks is to link every relevent thing in your page, just use a style sheet to make the hyperlink the same color as normal text and to have the default cursor, this way people won't recognise it as a hyperlink and will not click it.

Alternatively, provide a glossary of terms, or an index of your site, so that it serves purpose, but also has a huge ammount of content for search engine spiders to feed on.

Check out:

http://www.spiderfood.net/

I think the search engines search your code for links and use the results for their rankings. This may vary some but I think that's the general idea.

You might try:

<A HREF="your link here"></A>

Enclose no text within the Anchor Tags.

Another possibility is to use an image as a link. Set the height and width to 1 x 1 pixels and make it transparent.

Walt