Best Practices to Hide a PBN
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- Mar 10, 2010
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You don't want to noindex your site from Google or you'll end up with useless real estate.
It is ahrefs, SEMRush etc that you want to keep from crawling your sites.
It is ahrefs, SEMRush etc that you want to keep from crawling your sites.
lightningblitz
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In addition to @BassTrackerBoats ..
Block crawlers.
Most block majestic, moz, semrush crawlers.
I also suggest to block obscure crawlers. Such as serp stat, cognitive SEO, etc.
I find pbns with a gut feeling, a google search, or obscure link analysis sites like serp stat.
Block popular crawlers and obscure and you should be good.
Block crawlers.
Most block majestic, moz, semrush crawlers.
I also suggest to block obscure crawlers. Such as serp stat, cognitive SEO, etc.
I find pbns with a gut feeling, a google search, or obscure link analysis sites like serp stat.
Block popular crawlers and obscure and you should be good.
- Sep 10, 2010
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The title looks pretty clear to me? What is it that you don't understand?
rimvy
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The original title was "NoIndex Google Bot For PBN", BTB edited it for clarity.
seo tracker
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One competitor can check the backlink status via tools such as Moz, Majestic etc. So you should block those crawlers to avoid show your links.
hasan7707
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Perhaps the title lacks a question mark?
MikeyMikey13
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The only way to really hide your sites is only allowing all 10,000~ of Googles' IPs on your site.
Crawlers now are trying to be sneaky to bypass blocking their default useragents.
Crawlers now are trying to be sneaky to bypass blocking their default useragents.
patriotnews
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- Oct 25, 2015
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The best practice to hide your PBN is based upon your risk.
When I was doing PBNs more, I based my choices on risk.
If a keyword wasn't majorly competitive and had little IM interest, I wouldn't try to hide as hard. Not worrying about 1-5 pages, spun basic stuff.
If a keyword had a bit more of a competitive edge to it, I would make the site look legit. Pay for a theme, premium plugins, maybe ads(real or fake), all the stuff. Some I would hide from crawlers, some I would hide from some crawlers, some from none.
If you're outside a few select niches risk is low for a manual review
When I was doing PBNs more, I based my choices on risk.
If a keyword wasn't majorly competitive and had little IM interest, I wouldn't try to hide as hard. Not worrying about 1-5 pages, spun basic stuff.
If a keyword had a bit more of a competitive edge to it, I would make the site look legit. Pay for a theme, premium plugins, maybe ads(real or fake), all the stuff. Some I would hide from crawlers, some I would hide from some crawlers, some from none.
If you're outside a few select niches risk is low for a manual review
- Jul 5, 2011
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Block most of the crawlers from the main tools (ahrefs, moz, archive.org) to avoid any competitors to know your PBN links and how you are interconnected.
Kuz32
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The preferred method is to block crawlers, from sites like Majestic, Moz, SEM Rush etc. by changing the robots.txt file or, better, the htaccess file.
However, as others have said, the BEST method is to create REAL websties for REAL visitors, which means these things now require so much effort that they are an utter waste of time.
However, as others have said, the BEST method is to create REAL websties for REAL visitors, which means these things now require so much effort that they are an utter waste of time.