Hidding Backlinks from Competitors

H.lang said:

Hi

So i am thinking about starting to hide my backlinks from my competitors, reason being that i noticed that the websites a step and two behind mine is copying all my backlinks straight out, so i am wondering how i can hide my backlinks from various SEO tools like Ahref and SEMrush, basically as many of them as possible, since i am planning on getting some good links soon and wanna keeep them to myself =)

Also will hiding my affect my DR or traffic in any way in Ahref or Semrush for example, does anyone have experience with this?

Much appreciated

Click to expand...

It is useles to try to prevent the crawlers from accessing your website since the backlink are on other websites. the other websites will still be accessible via ahrefs nd semrush. Imv, I will prefer the unique backlink nd backlinks from partnership pages that have some value that cannot be duplicated by your competitors. this is much more effective than hiding your backlinks.

Preventing competitive scraping often involves implementing server-side blocking for specific user agents or using cloaking techniques to restrict access to your link profile. Could you clarify whether you are currently using a specific CMS or CDN, as these platforms offer different methods for managing bot crawl access?

wouldn’t worry too much about comp copying your backlink profile. Most SEO tools rely on their own crawlers and databases so there’s no simple way to hide every link from all of them.

You can’t fully hide backlinks. Different SEO tools use independent crawlers, so blocking one won’t stop others.

H.lang said:

Hi

So i am thinking about starting to hide my backlinks from my competitors, reason being that i noticed that the websites a step and two behind mine is copying all my backlinks straight out, so i am wondering how i can hide my backlinks from various SEO tools like Ahref and SEMrush, basically as many of them as possible, since i am planning on getting some good links soon and wanna keeep them to myself =)

Also will hiding my affect my DR or traffic in any way in Ahref or Semrush for example, does anyone have experience with this?

Much appreciated

Click to expand...

They cannot be hidden. Ahrefs and SEMrush find backlinks by spidering the sites that link to you, and so blocking their crawlers from your own site would not affect them. This action can only be carried out by the owner of the linking site, which is why PBN owners do so. However, such an action cannot affect your rankings in Google or real traffic. But your Domain Authority and traffic figures will become stagnant.

You should rather concentrate on backlinks that cannot be duplicated. For example, digital PR, original data and relationships cannot be duplicated by your competitors.