This plugin is designed for website owners who want to prevent search engines from indexing and following outgoing links from their content. It is particularly useful for those managing affiliate links, controlling link equity distribution, or avoiding association with external content they link to.

• Link Masking: Automatically processes external links in your posts and pages, converting them into a format that is not followed by search engine crawlers.
• User Experience Preservation: The links remain fully functional for human visitors. A click triggers a JavaScript action that navigates to the intended URL, so site functionality is unchanged.
• Selective Control: You can exclude specific domains from being hidden using a whitelist. Individual links can also be exempted by adding a data-seohide="false" attribute directly in the HTML.
• Configuration Options: Includes settings to open hidden external links in a new browser tab (target="_blank"). The processing priority can be adjusted via filters to ensure compatibility with other plugins and shortcodes.
• Technical Foundation: The method transforms link href attributes, storing the real URL in a data-* attribute (often Base64 encoded). A JavaScript event handler decodes and redirects the user upon click, making the link opaque to automated crawlers.