so it is impossible for a site to see a backlink to my site I might have sent them?
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.Block the crawlers through .htaccess not robots.txt. It's easy to see if crawlers are being blocked if you use robots.txt.
what about moz?If you block ahrefs and semrush bots yes
what about moz?
Excellent. So it shouldn't appear in a sites backlink profile right?You can block them all
Excellent. So it shouldn't appear in a sites backlink profile right?
And if I do that it will defeat purpose of affecting serp??Only in search consoles for Google, Bing and what ever other crawlers you don't block.
Read what I wrote again. You will only see the backlinks listed in you search engine consoles
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]
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
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.