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. I concluded that it was best at the top of the page.

Things that need to be added:

<p><a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="showdiv()" style="text-decoration:none">Site design by Tempusfugit Web Design</a> - needs to be added in Site Designed by section.

My initial idea was to have the notes to display by clicking on the banner at the bottom of the page.

The "noprint" class

To prevent the notes being printed this needs to added.

Are these notes indexed by search engines

This remains to be seen. In many respects it would be a good idea if they are as pages would be found by someone who you have mentioned and you don't necassarily want them to see what you have said about them.