Those of you who frequent some of the PBN/SEO related Facebook groups will most likely recognize this name. Yashar is a 16 year old SEO Guru who "specializes in explosive organic search traffic".
Yashar has gained a pretty sizeae name for himself, and was even featured on the blogs of a couple...
Yes, it sucks. Afaik there's not way around it aside from knowing the IP's of the bots you want to block.
Neither whitelisting nor blacklisting crawlers is bulletproof, but in my opinion whitelisting is more effective.
This configuration will block all traffic, EXCEPT traffic that is using one of the user agents designated as "good_agents". Non-bot traffic will still be blocked if it's user agent is not specified in the whitelist.
As per The Data Scientist's suggestion I have updated the whitelist to include...
When blocking crawlers from PBNs most people blacklist specific crawlers in the .htaccess file. This is a perfectly valid way of blocking unwanted crawlers from your sites, but it can leave you vulnerable. Here’s why:
There are many small, lesser known backlink tools out there, and unless you...
You have PBN sites, the purpose of these sites is to place links to your money site to increase their ranking.
You want to stop your competitors from finding these sites, because they might report them to Google. In order to do this, it is necessary to stop backlink tools (Majestic, Ahrefs...
You block the crawlers on the level of the individual PBN sites, not from your money site.
If you want your competitors to be able to find your weaker PBN sites (although I'm not sure why you would want that), then simply don't block crawlers from accessing those sites.
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