Obfuscate links (for SEO purpose)

reno_queen

Link obfuscation is a more and more common topic in order to improve SEO by masking the non-important links to provide more weight to others. I'm looking for an efficient way to obfuscate links in Wordpress, directly in the source code obviously, for example by adding a special class to my links. It must turn the <a> element into something else like a <span> , with no more visible href attribute nor any actual URL, so that robots cannot see any...

Originally asked by rAthus on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I ended up making my own system that allows me to obfuscate any link easily. Add the following code to your child theme's functions.php file, then just add the class "obfuscate" to any element to obfuscate its link by replacing it with a element with no readable link. Also be sure to edit styles above, or delet them and style the "akn-obf-link" class in your own CSS file, so that it looks like a link to the visitor. /*************************************************************************************\ |* Links obuscation - add class "obfuscate" to any <a> element to obfuscate its link *| \*************************************************************************************/ // Add this...

Full answer by rAthus: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/404337 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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