Webmaster Notes

In my attempt to find a way of controlling access to external links from this website I was investigating the use of API calls to determine the current IP address and the IP address that I had written to my server previously. The plan was to hide these out-bound links unless it was me that was accessing the page.

An off-shoot of this was the concept of hiding a whole section of the page and that section could then contain the links that I did not want my visitors to exit my site. Intially I was concerned that these out-bound links were detremental to page-ranking. Now I am not so sure and I think that the search engine algorithms are now taking the context of such links into account when determining how to position your content.

An addtional benefit of a hidden section is that notes to myself can be placed on the page and these notes, as they are not normally seen, do allow me to record visits that I have seen to a page and the changes that I have made to the page that are not really of relevance to a visitor that found the page looking for an answer to a problem.

This page has a "Webmaster Notes" section.

Placement of the Hidden Section

I am debating whether this should be at the top of the page or just above the links section.