Originally from 2002. Updated with explanation 2024.
Invisible, Unspiderable Link
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Li Europan lingues es membres del sam familie. Lor separat
existentie es un myth. Por scientie,
musica, sport etc., li
tot Europa usa li sam vocabularium. Li lingues differe solmen
in li grammatica, li pronunciation e li plu commun vocabules.
Omnicos directe al desirabilitá de un nov lingua franca: on
refusa continuar payar custosi traductores. It solmen va
esser necessi far uniform grammatica, pronunciation e plu
sommun paroles.
Ma quande lingues coalesce, li grammatica del resultant
lingue es plu simplic e regulari quam ti del coalescent
lingues. Li nov lingua franca va esser plu simplic e
regulari quam li existent Europan lingues. It va esser tam
simplic quam Occidental: in fact, it va esser Occidental.A un
Angleso it va semblar un simplificat Angles, quam un skeptic
Cambridge amico dit me que Occidental es.
Technique
The technique here is to hide a link in a span tag, and then use JavaScript to navigate to the link.
It's not in a proper tag which refers to an external link, such as <a> or
<link>.
Search engines ought not recognize this sort of link.
But it's a kind of privacy or security by obscurity. Any user may view the source of the page and see that
there's additional code and a link.
Spammers will sometimes append links to a page when they gain access to write to server files. And they can
cover their tracks by encoding that source as gibberish, such as by encoding it so it doesn't look like tags and
words.
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