How to Hide 301 Redirect From Your Competitors?

monsterseo

Elite Member

Aug 3, 2014

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #1

People are not dump, if your site is well ranked with 301 redirects from potential top domains, then your competitors can easily find it out by checking from ahrefs / majesticseo or opensiteexplorer. For those who doesn't know how to deal this, just follow this:

1) Go to cPanel and start your file browser


2) Open the .htaccess file and write this code into it:

Code:

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>

That's it

 

Adam718

BANNED

Jun 19, 2012

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #2

For those of you reading this that do use 301's to rank your sites, don't take this lightly. Secure your strategies!

 

DannyZhang

Regular Member

Apr 2, 2014

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• Oct 28, 2014

• #3

Hey I've been meaning to do this for quite some time. Is this the strategy for pple who are ranking with 0 backlinks at all?

 

SEODEMON

Regular Member

Sep 15, 2010

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• Oct 28, 2014

• #4

It don't hide it from Google. info:yourdomain.com Im pretty sure that's the Google code to find 301s. Its been awhile since I used it.

You don't want to block the Googlebot.


However 301 redirects to Youtube videos are completely hidden by Google and just about every other method that I tried. Simply Invisible.

 

drogon

Elite Member

May 28, 2010

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• Dec 8, 2014

• #5

If using Wordpress, do you add that before the, # BEGIN WordPress & # END WordPress, or above or below it?

Cheers.

 

andreint

Regular Member

Jun 28, 2014

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• Dec 8, 2014

• #6

You need to to this for both sites. The one you're redirecting and for the target site.

Also block them bots via robots file also