Blocking Google seeing outbound links?

[activitysuper]

Apart from rewriting the outbound url to look like a folder 'abc.co.uk/out/link1' and blocking the folder 'out' in the robots.txt file, along with also nofollowing the links as well, is there anything else you can do?

[Andropenis_Australia]

Why is it a big deal?

How about noindexing the page?

[deltasystems]

You'll need to create the link on DOM load with Javascript. Google won't crawl a dynamically loaded DOM.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

This question is full of mystery. If you "nofollow" an outbound link, Google won't count it, and this is the safe thing to do for untrusted links 99% of the time.

But why would you not want Google to "see" the link? There is a technique called "masking" or "cloaking" in which you redirect the link through a blocked directory (via robots.txt), then use php or another method to send the link on it's merry way.

This is often done with affiliate links. Do a Google search for how to mask (or cloak) affiliate links and you should find several techniques to do what you're looking for.

[activitysuper]

The links are already cloaked 'Jump URLs', the way you described.

But as I have found if you do that without the nofollow added to the link, Google indexes the cloaked url as it looks like it is part of the websites structure.

If I just nofollow the link Google may not pass link juice through it but it must still count it as a outbound link, now not saying I have but if I had a page with 50 outbound links with only nofollow I believe this will still have a negative effect.