Hide your backlinks from competitors?

Hello, I would like to know if it was possible to hide the backlinks of my site from my competitors? So even if they use Majestic or Seobserver or anything else they won't be able to see my strategy...

I found this article : https://archivarix.com/en/blog/hide-backlinks/

with this code in htaccess :

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*aboundexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ahrefsbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*backlinkcrawler.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blekkobo.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dotbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dsearch.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*exabot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ezooms.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*gigabot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ia_archiver.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*linkdexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*lipperhey spider.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-12.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-seo.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*meanpathbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*megaindex.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*mj12bot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ncbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*nutch.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*pagesinventory.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*rogerbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*scoutjet.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*searchmetricsbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*semrushbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*seokicks-robot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sistrix.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sitebot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*spbot.* botstop
<Limit GET POST HEAD>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=botstop
</Limit>


But can you confirm it will work for the backlinks or only the outbound links? If you know what I mean...

Thank you!

This code it's old but will work.

I doubt can work, is kinda you always have to update ? Daily so many new tools come out to spy etc stuffs if i right

Is this code active and are you try them yourself working or not?

You can block any other spider except googlebot....just search on G block all bots except googlebot it's not rocket science but be careful because G crawls the web with other IPs and bots and this can be a footprint,

This is too primitive.

To actually totally defeat your competitors you need a cloaker.

On the site seen by the link checker crawlers you show totally unrelated links. For extra bonus, show cloaked links to your competitors just for shits and giggles.

That's Jedi master level 11 competitor screwing. (Yes the top SEOs do it but will never tell you about it.)

Yes, it is possible. Find the bots of those SEO tools and simply block from your .htaccess rules. The lines you've mentioned are correct for blocking some bots. But remember, it is very hard to block everything because there are tons of these types of softwares.

Thank you all for your replies.

But something I want to understand, these code lines will work for outbound links only or for backlinks also ?
This method is only for PBN, right? (meaning backlinks from satellite websites to money site).

What I want is being able to hide from Majestic the backlinks that other people made to my website, so that the competitors won't see my strategy. But I don't have control on these websites. I don't know if that's clear enough...