How to hide links from SEO crawlers

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If you want to hide outbound link that is either Authoritative/good or Spam/bad so that it can be picked up by search engine but not by SEO link check, how can this be done?
 
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so it is impossible for a site to see a backlink to my site I might have sent them?
 
Block the crawlers through .htaccess not robots.txt. It's easy to see if crawlers are being blocked if you use robots.txt.
Your right you can also block them via .htaccess . Even the crawlers of competitors found that you block them via robot.txt there is no such way to bypass that, but fo you to make them all hidden use .htaccess.
 
Read what I wrote again. You will only see the backlinks listed in you search engine consoles
 
Read what I wrote again. You will only see the backlinks listed in you search engine consoles

Ahh my apologies if it is maybe a little unclear as I am very new to this. But what I mean is:

- Let's say I want to boost my sites rank through a high quality link or two only I know about but I block crawlers like suggested above
- but, there are other people that have access to console, employer etc but I don't want them to see referring urls... so I block search crawler access too - then it will negate the effect of trying to boost rank in the first place, right? Like cancelling out my own effort?
- if this is the case then lets say, the links boost me to first page but then I remove them shortly before anyone else sees - will my rank drop back down?
 
Block the crawlers through ".htaccess" . If you block through robot.txt then the crawlers found out that you was blocked there is way for bypass also..
 
You need to add this lines:
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AltaVista [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp
RewriteRule ^.*$ "http\:\/\/yourdomain\.com" [R=301,L]
Into .htaccess file on your root public_html/ folder

And also this:
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
to a robots.txt file in any folder if you want to just block specific folders.
 
logging all this yall are super!

But can anyone please tell me if I can block google so backlink is invisible on console but still affect page rank?
I know this might sound stupid but I want to give an acquaintance a present but don't want them to know the source or that it was from one of my sites.
 
logging all this yall are super!

But can anyone please tell me if I can block google so backlink is invisible on console but still affect page rank?
I know this might sound stupid but I want to give an acquaintance a present but don't want them to know the source or that it was from one of my sites.


No to keep it out of search console you would need to block it from Google. Then Google will not index and count the link. You can hide links from third party crawlers to keep your competitors from seeing them.


I'm not sure if you understand this, but you have block the crawlers on the website linking to your money site. So you need to own the site and have access to the server. This is done to hide PBNs from the competition not from the site owner like you seem to be wanting to do.
 
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