[ronniebryan]

Hello, Dream in Code, just hoping you could point me in the right direction, I will gladly, do my own homework, and although; I am not a designer would be willing to attempt to create my own code on this. First, a little about me. My name is Ron Bryan, those closest to me call me Ron, or Ronnie. I have worked online self-employed, since, March 6, 2009 what does all this mean, I have been exposed to every type of business that could be found online, I have tested and tried all of them, made a little income, and started to transition to an innovative producer mindset.

What, I am posting here , is simply, starting as an Idea, but one I believe , is very useful to any person working online. Feel free to correct me if I am barking up the wrong tree. I welcome complaints and compliments , all are educational feedback.

Here is what, I am thinking, and if this is the wrong forums, for this please, share your thoughts, and opinions.
what if an email program could be designed, to hide web URLS under text? You, see this can be done on Blogs, and in Article formats, but as far as I can see, nothing exist of this nature for emails that are sent out. You could maybe, design something using an Auto Responder, but what about the percentage of people unfamiliar with Auto Responders, or those who chose not to use them?

SEO, is about natural flow of content, what if your emails could appear like an Article, or Blog Post, and your clickable link actually, was hidden under useful content. You, can probably, do something similar using Microsoft Tools, but in my experience, copy and pasting from Microsoft Word for instance, can alter the email and make it look unprofessional. I have seen parts of strange code appear in my emails before.

As, far as I know no email free or paid , has tools set up that will allow you, to mask your link underneath text, like blog post and article submissions.

Thank you, for your time and responses.

Ron

[LaughingBelly]

Hello Ron! Welcome!

Would you elaborate a bit more on this - perhaps with an example?

I am almost positive that I am misunderstanding your idea. Either you are talking about HTML emails - or quite literally about hiding links. If you are talking about HTML emails, this works now on most online email providers as well as major email clients. If you are indeed talking about hiding links where the user wont even know there is a link to something.. you got me. That sounds like the spam that is trying to get me to click on something trying as hard as possible to deceive me.

[ronniebryan]

Hello, Thank You, laughingbelly, good point, I am not here to make anyone uncomfortable.My idea, was to transform a standard email to appear as it would in an article , or blog post, example let us say, you were writing about a a pair of shoes instead of http://www.paylessshoesource.com appearing in your email, you would have text, such as, I was shopping for some new running shoes and got this pair at a huge discount. Kind of an elaborate, the text of course would have to be something more useful to the person your talking with, but for an example, it works, the running shoes would actually, be a link you could click that would redirect you to the payless website or landing page. Of course, you brought up a good point, it could allow spammers' to hide links to anything, or hackers to get inside your email, so there would have to be safety features used by any email business that allowed this type of feature. Everything , is kind of vague, right now, as this is just an idea, and I am trying to work out the details, coming to a forum like this though, seemed like a good place to start=)

[LaughingBelly]

I now understand that you are not trying to hide the link, but to make it act like it was on a webpage. This is precisely what HTML email is about. Please lookup HTML email on your favourite search engine. What you propose is already possible on a wide variety of email clients/providers.