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How to hide site baclinks?

by SEMaster
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Is there anyway to hide our site backlinks from tools like seo spyglass, ahrefs, majestic seo? Because it is really annoying when someone steal your link's work.
#baclinks #hide #site
  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    Have you tried emailing the more popular tool providers and requesting that they remove any information related to your website?
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  • Profile picture of the author SASA Techno
    Hi in my opinion you can disallow all bots from crawling a site other than Google bot. This would stop links from showing in nearly all back link check tools on the market places.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronrule
    Don't know if this will help you, but I came up with a method a few years ago that bans all spiders that don't obey robots.txt.

    1. Create a page that adds the IP address of anyone who visits it to the DENY list (deny from X.X.X.X - optionally, you could do a redirect to another page instead of a deny if you want to tell them why)

    2. Add that page to robots.txt as a disallow.

    3. Create a hidden link to that ban page somewhere in your site's universal header (the closer to the top the better) and set its style to display:none;

    Basically what this does is configure robots.txt to tell spiders NOT to go to the page that will ban them. Those who obey robots.txt will never follow that link and will be able to spider your site. But those that IGNORE robots.txt will scrape your site and follow that link, thus banning themselves from the site as soon as they hit that page.
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    • Profile picture of the author TrafficTrader
      Originally Posted by ronrule View Post

      Don't know if this will help you, but I came up with a method a few years ago that bans all spiders that don't obey robots.txt.

      1. Create a page that adds the IP address of anyone who visits it to the DENY list (deny from X.X.X.X - optionally, you could do a redirect to another page instead of a deny if you want to tell them why)

      2. Add that second page to robots.txt as a disallow.

      3. Create a hidden link to that ban page somewhere in your site's universal header (the closer to the top the better) and set its style to display:none;

      Basically what this does is configure robots.txt to tell spiders NOT to go to the page that will ban them. Those who obey robots.txt will never follow that link and will be able to spider your site. But those that IGNORE robots.txt will scrape your site and follow that link, thus banning themselves from the site as soon as they hit that page.
      This is a great strategy...thank you
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      • Profile picture of the author ronrule
        Originally Posted by TrafficTrader View Post

        This is a great strategy...thank you
        Hang on, I forgot one thing and this is important!

        Don't launch this all at once. Do the robots.txt first, and make the page, but don't actually let it trigger the ban yet.

        The reason: because Google may visit your site more often than it visits robots.txt, and the LAST thing you want is for a REAL search engine to accidentally trip that page and get themselves banned from your site, making them unable to index it.

        So set up the page so it EXISTS only, and set up Robots.txt. Once you're sure your latest robots.txt is being read by the real search engines, THEN activate the ban code.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEMaster
    @ronrule: Interesting thanks, lets see more guru's opinions.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Haven
    Originally Posted by SEMaster View Post

    Is there anyway to hide our site backlinks from tools like seo spyglass, ahrefs, majestic seo? Because it is really annoying when someone steal your link's work.
    You can block some of their robots in your robots.txt file, but unfortunately (or fortunately) there's always a way around stealing links from competitors. It's part of the game.
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