How to hide Backlink profile?

codeman1234 · Jul 19, 2014

Anyone Please?? Because I cannot find anywhere the name of crawler of spyglass, been searching for hours and is no where and spyder spanker does not block it either

Laubster · Jul 20, 2014

codeman1234 said:
Anyone Please?? Because I cannot find anywhere the name of crawler of spyglass, been searching for hours and is no where and spyder spanker does not block it either

You're probably not going to find an answer b/c almost no one uses SEO Spyglass

randybishop · Jul 20, 2014

I use link privacy plugin, it works just like spider spanker, but it's free.
FYI: If the links are already pointing to your site and ahref/seo majestic/etc have indexed them it will take months (if ever) for the links to be deindexed (from my experience). You gotta block ahref/seo majestic/etc BEFORE you link them to your money site.

spmcnerd · Jul 20, 2014

Sure
linkprivacy.com it's a WP plugin download at bottom of page.
Look at your .htaccess (notepad) after install and you will see the blocks.
Looks like they recently bought a boost and still settling on search.

codeman1234 · Jul 20, 2014

Thanks for the plugin guys!!! Awesome plugin!!! For free just a couple of questions:

1) This plugin blocks bots from .htaccess or robots or how?

2) I dont see Spyglass bot on plugin list, anyone can provide name so, I can blocked it too?

Thanks again!!

randybishop · Jul 21, 2014

codeman1234 said:
Thanks for the plugin guys!!! Awesome plugin!!! For free just a couple of questions:

1) This plugin blocks bots from .htaccess or robots or how?

2) I dont see Spyglass bot on plugin list, anyone can provide name so, I can blocked it too?

Thanks again!!

I believe it blocks via robots.txt & htaccess.
Not sure about Spyglass bot, link privacy plugin has a facebook page that the creators answer questions on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/linkprivacy/

backtobasics · Aug 6, 2014

Using the robots.txt to block crawlers. See item number one on this list:

Code:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/robots.shtml

Comprehensive info about robots.txt

Code:

http://www.robotstxt.org/

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

Code:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Good article from Search Engine Land about blocking bots with .htaccess

Code:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites

aka sam · Aug 6, 2014

Spyder Spanker- Give it a shot. I think it should serve the purpose for you.

backtobasics · Aug 12, 2014

Spider Spanker has been referenced a lot. Just wondering if it will leave a footprint??

campo · Aug 12, 2014

think whatever is in the robots file is rather useless. It is the 'crawl politely' file. I have written a few crawlers for some different things and never bothered with the robots file, as i wanted to get all the info. I would assume many of the analytics bots would do the same.
I would always go with either spider spanker or the the htaccess file.
Also, google does look at the robots file, so blocking other bots in there must make them suspicious...

Frogserv · Aug 12, 2014

Robots.txt with all the rules above will leave footprints...
Bots can ignore your robots.txt, they can't ignore your .htaccess if done right.

Use an .htaccess file with the right settings and you will hide all PBN links to your competitors.

Mikky11 · Aug 11, 2017

And what are these settings?

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