Ahrefs shows 0 backlinks, but I know that's not true

macdonjo3 · Dec 5, 2015

Check out this guy's site.

Backlink profiles are pretty much nil:
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/subdomains/fresh?target=joshmacdonald.org
https://majestic.com/reports/site-e...ld.org&oq=joshmacdonald.org&IndexDataSource=F

Check out some of the website mentions (and links): https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q="joshmacdonald.org"+-site%3Ajoshmacdonald.org&oq="joshmacdonald.org"+-site%3Ajoshmacdonald.org

Why is Ahrefs not indexing these? Or do you think this guy is riding 100% of social signals? Thousands of Instagram and Twitter followers.

Whistleblower · Dec 5, 2015

for which KWs he is ranking ?

Banned member 185991 · Dec 5, 2015

They take time to pick up links for new sites.

I see your domain has been registered for a while, have you only recently started to use it?

Whistleblower said:
for what KWs he is ranking ?

OP don't take advise from this member, he is a full on mong.

Hawkster · Dec 5, 2015

I think it takes ahrefs longer to show them ?

None of the tools are accurate anyway ive found.

Whistleblower · Dec 5, 2015

Ste Hughes said:
OP don't take advise from this member, he is a full on mong.

What?! .

Banned member 185991 · Dec 5, 2015

Whistleblower said:
What?! .

I think we both know what I am talking about.

Whistleblower · Dec 5, 2015

Ste Hughes said:
I think we both know what I am talking about.

You intervening in my posts ? Hm Ok.

Banned member 185991 · Dec 5, 2015

Whistleblower said:
You intervening in my posts ? Hm Ok.

I was referring to the fact you seem to only post, total crap. Shit posts as they are called.

Lets take a look at some of your threads:
Your method of stealing content from other sources
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ers-too-good-blackhat-trick-free-content.html

You making a "better" version of my content tutorial:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...y-100-unique-content-little-mathematical.html

A thread literally asking us how you copy and paste from archive.org
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/804488-even-possible.html

Just a complete waste of time:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/804512-alexa-adsense-honest-survey.html

Lets look at some of your posts:
WTF have keywords got to do with Ahrefs crawling links:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ks-but-i-know-thats-not-true.html#post8471173

Asking me to do a video tutorial when I just spent 2 hours writing out a real tutorial
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ks-but-i-know-thats-not-true.html#post8471173

Also on that thread, I totally forgot. Do you know I offered you $500 to write a better tutorial than mine to solve the same problem after you put up some shit post about how it was wrong:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...easy-generate-semi-unique-content-mass-2.html

I also have the gut feeling that you are a previously banned member, some of your posts mention the past when you have only been on this forum for 2 months.

I honestly believe you are just some gobby teenager, who has nothing to offer but wants to look important.

Every single post you put up is crap, its just nonsense.

Whistleblower · Dec 5, 2015

i asked KWs coz thats what made OP to do research on this site. i didn't mean to say that, can you tell me from ahrefs for which kws he is ranking actually. i couldn't see myself coz i don't have semrush sub right now.

Nonilol · Dec 6, 2015

Ste Hughes said:
I was referring to the fact you seem to only post, total crap. Shit posts as they are called.

Lets take a look at some of your threads:
Your method of stealing content from other sources
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ers-too-good-blackhat-trick-free-content.html

You making a "better" version of my content tutorial:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...y-100-unique-content-little-mathematical.html

A thread literally asking us how you copy and paste from archive.org
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/804488-even-possible.html

Just a complete waste of time:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/804512-alexa-adsense-honest-survey.html

Lets look at some of your posts:
WTF have keywords got to do with Ahrefs crawling links:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ks-but-i-know-thats-not-true.html#post8471173

Asking me to do a video tutorial when I just spent 2 hours writing out a real tutorial
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ks-but-i-know-thats-not-true.html#post8471173

Also on that thread, I totally forgot. Do you know I offered you $500 to write a better tutorial than mine to solve the same problem after you put up some shit post about how it was wrong:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...easy-generate-semi-unique-content-mass-2.html

I also have the gut feeling that you are a previously banned member, some of your posts mention the past when you have only been on this forum for 2 months.

I honestly believe you are just some gobby teenager, who has nothing to offer but wants to look important.

Every single post you put up is crap, its just nonsense.

Why don't you simply ignore people like whistleblower. I mean, is it really worth the effort to pile up all these links?

Banned member 185991 · Dec 6, 2015

Nonilol said:
Why don't you simply ignore people like whistleblower. I mean, is it really worth the effort to pile up all these links?

Character flaw...

macdonjo3 · Dec 6, 2015

Whistleblower said:
i asked KWs coz thats what made OP to do research on this site. i didn't mean to say that, can you tell me from ahrefs for which kws he is ranking actually. i couldn't see myself coz i don't have semrush sub right now.

To start, he's ranking for his own name, above the Wikipedia page.

bartosimpsonio · Dec 6, 2015

Hey OP, when I build PBN's all the major backlink tools are banned to protect the network.

What benefit is there to allow these tools to waste my bandwidth anyway?

macdonjo3 · Dec 6, 2015

bartosimpsonio said:
Hey OP, when I build PBN's all the major backlink tools are banned to protect the network.

What benefit is there to allow these tools to waste my bandwidth anyway?

Yeah, but the sites in the Google search that are linking back are not PBNs and their robots.txt is clean.

Google:

-site:joshmacdonald.org "joshmacdonald.org"

Ambassy · Dec 6, 2015

Ahrefs doesn't have nearly the processing power to match G, thus indexing will take way longer in ahrefs.

In my experience, ahrefs indexes more like a crawler than G. What I mean is, if you have a new domain and throw it a comment blast, Ahrefs will pick it up ASAP.
Google does on the other hand have the luxury of ignoring stuff it deems unworthy such as nofollow, low quality links etc. which means they won't respond nearly as efficient to a low quality link blast.

EDIT: That being said, I do find it strange that they don't have any of the pages linking to the domain in their index.

bradspitts · Dec 6, 2015

It takes time for ahrefs to report some of the links, it will never show everything pointing to a certain url.

macdonjo3 · Dec 6, 2015

bradspitts said:
It takes time for ahrefs to report some of the links, it will never show everything pointing to a certain url.

Yes, I know. But there are literally 50+ referring domains and ahrefs shows 0. It's not even showing 10%.

macdonjo3 · Dec 8, 2015

Ambassy said:
EDIT: That being said, I do find it strange that they don't have any of the pages linking to the domain in their index.

Literally zero. I emailed ahrefs.

DDuce · Dec 8, 2015

macdonjo3 said:
Check out this guy's site.

Backlink profiles are pretty much nil:
https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/subdomains/fresh?target=joshmacdonald.org
https://majestic.com/reports/site-e...ld.org&oq=joshmacdonald.org&IndexDataSource=F

Check out some of the website mentions (and links): https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q="joshmacdonald.org"+-site%3Ajoshmacdonald.org&oq="joshmacdonald.org"+-site%3Ajoshmacdonald.org

Why is Ahrefs not indexing these? Or do you think this guy is riding 100% of social signals? Thousands of Instagram and Twitter followers.

Let me go and be the first to make a constructive reply to the OP then ;-)

What you're seeing is 99,99% because of a smart spider blocker. And I'm not talking robots.txt here. I figured this would be public knowledge by nowb but I guess it isn't

Drop this bit of code at the bottom of your .htaccess file. Make sure the use of htaccess is enabled in Apache/Nginx:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} rogerbot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} bingbot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} exabot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} dotbot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} gigabot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AhrefsBot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Discobot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EdisterBot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HuaweiSymantecSpider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} JikeSpider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Magpie-Crawler [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MJ12bot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SISTRIX [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sogou [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Sosospider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} TurnitinBot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} YandexBot [NC]
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]


SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ^$ bad_bot    #this is for blank user-agents
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Jakarta" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^User-Agent" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^libwww," bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^lwp-trivial" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Snoopy" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^PHPCrawl" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WEP Search" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Missigua Locator" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^ISC Systems iRc" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^lwp-trivial" bad_bot

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^rogerbot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^bingbot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^exabot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^dotbot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^gigabot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^AhrefsBot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Baiduspider" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Discobot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^EdisterBot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^HuaweiSymantecSpider" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Magpie-Crawler" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^MJ12bot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^SISTRIX" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Sogou" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Sosospider" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^TurnitinBot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^YandexBot" bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^JikeSpider" bad_bot
 
 <Limit GET POST HEAD>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot

....and profit. No bot will get past you. This won't protect you from anyone deliberately spoofing their UA's, but luckily for you, the big guys don't! Don't forget to thank this post if it helped you

Best of luck!

DDuce · Dec 8, 2015

And bingbot is in here deliberately. Corporates pay $10.000+ / month for direct access to their index. Not too many people know about it, but if you want to stay under your competitors' radar - block Bing.

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