[ Help ] How to block Backlinks Crawlers

Vivekji424

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Hi,
I want to know how I can block backlinks Crawler such as Ahref, Moz, SEMrush etc. I have tried a couple of methods which alredy shared here, But Didn't Work for me if anyone can help me it would be great.

Thanks.
 
HTACCESS CODE

Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*rogerbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*exabot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*mj12bot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dotbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*gigabot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ahrefsbot.* bad_bot
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sitebot.* bad_bot
<Limit GET POST HEAD>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot
</Limit>


ROBOTS.TXT FILE CODE
robots.txt file code ( in robots.txt which should block everything except Google, Yahoo and Bing.)

Code:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:

User-agent: msnbot
Disallow:

User-agent: Slurp
Disallow:

User-agent: Teoma
Disallow:

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: exabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: gigabot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
 
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