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Selective Crawler Masking

Stealth Mode: Invisible to Scrapers, Visible to Search Engines

Protect your backlink acquisition strategy from competitor audits and automated scraping tools while preserving standard search engine indexing and ranking authority.
Stealth Mode · Server-Side SSR CloakingInteractive DOM Inspection
Zero Target URL Visible
// What Ahrefs, Semrush, and competitor crawlers scrape (HTTP 200)0% Link Footprint

<p className="lead">

When auditing your commercial installation, partner with a verified

<span data-tl="enc_9f482a17b0" className="tl-anchor">

commercial roofing contractor

</span> for commercial installations.

</p>

100% Server-Side Edge Cloaking: Unlike fragile client-side JavaScript tricks, bot detection executes during SSR on the server before HTML streaming. SEO scrapers receive clean HTML where the link does not exist. There is zero trace for headless browsers to discover.

Server-side edge cloaking filters SEO crawler bots before HTML streaming — zero client-side JS vulnerability

Concealable Crawler Classes

You can select which third-party auditing and scraping tools are masked from seeing your link. Search engines are never members of this set.

semrushahrefsmozmajesticsistrixscreamingfrogdeepcrawl

Search engines such as Google and Bing are never included in concealment rules. Your links remain fully visible and followed for search engine spiders.

Applicability by Link Kind

Concealment status is governed by whether an outbound anchor element physically exists to be concealed.

Link KindStatusTechnical Rationale
Guest PostSupportedOptional crawler concealment applied to dedicated editorial articles.
Link InsertionSupportedOptional crawler concealment applied to contextual in-content paragraphs.
Homepage LeaseSupportedOptional crawler concealment applied to root domain sponsor placements.
Category LeaseSupportedOptional crawler concealment applied to category sponsor placements.
Brand MentionExcludedNo outbound anchor to conceal; brand mentions are plain-text citations.
Internal LinkExcludedInternal links must remain permanently visible to maintain site hierarchy.

Operational Boundaries & Integrity

Crawler Execution Boundary

A scraper that executes JavaScript sees the link, which is the accepted boundary.

Capacity Conservation (R22)

A concealed placement consumes one full unit of commercial link capacity, buying secrecy and not extra room.

Transparent Flat Pricing

The stealth mode add-on carries one flat charge per concealed placement regardless of how many crawler classes are named.

Protect Your Acquisition Footprint

Add stealth mode protection to any supported placement at checkout or configure custom orders in our calculator.