Manual Disavowing Links via htaccess

codo3500

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Dec 19, 2010

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #1

Hey guys,

I've got a site with plenty of spammy links (from back when they worked), it's been hit, but not too badly.

Disavow tool doesn't seem like a good option, so I'm looking at other ones.

Contacting webmasters is tedious and doesn't seem to pay off, it's just not worth their time most of the time.

What if I was to block the spammy domain via my htaccess; so when GoogleBot crawls from the spam site to mine, it shows we don't like that site, and won't allow access from it? Would this work?

Thanks,
JC

 

assphuck

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Feb 22, 2009

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #2

No. Google will not follow your backlinks as a surfer would. Change the page name and let the old one serve a 404 request is an option if you feel so compelled to do something.

Many people, and I mean many, have reported that removing or disavowing backlinks has not done jack shit to help their rankings. In fact, many reported worse rankings. I personally think the disavow tool is part of Google's psychological warfare against webmasters. This disavow tool essentially gives webmasters the illusion that they are in control when they are not. The fact that it has not worked on so many sites leads me to believe the few that did recover had other variables at work.

 

ComputerEngineer

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Apr 25, 2012

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #3

robots doesnt pass referrer so no way to block

 

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dinkish

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Apr 19, 2013

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #4

Right, you can block a specific bot client however not more than that that I'm aware of.

 

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seoactive

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Nov 15, 2012

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #5

So I guess if disvow tool is just for a 'show', there really anything you can do anything once you are 'screwed' by your competitor with negative-seo?

 

scorpion king

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May 2, 2010

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• Jun 3, 2013

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If its a manual penalty then you need to contact webmasters and request for removal of your link. Then use disavow tool to remove other links which you are unable to remove. Google un ban your site if you do this, no mater it works or not.
If its automated penalty you can change the page names and even www. and without that works in some cases. I am not sure changing htaccess will help you can try your luck.

 

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seoactive

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• Jun 3, 2013

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I am not sure why htaccess is involved in this. I always thought htaccess is used more of an internal thing.
Maybe robot.txt is better for situation like this? Thanks.

 

dheer787

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Nov 30, 2011

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• Jun 3, 2013

• #8

It is best not using Disavow too aggressively. It will bring down the total number of backlinks, and more importantly, it'll tell Google that there has been a blackhat link building method used

 

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ad3mar

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Jan 11, 2011

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• Jun 7, 2013

• #9

Hello... to remove backlinks, this code sample is ok ?

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain2\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain3\.co\.uk
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Click to expand...

After all, do you see any improvements using htaccess trick to block the backlinks ?

When a subdomain is the backlink, what to block, main domain is enough or need to do subdomain ?

subdomain.domain\.com = its the corect code ?

 

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ad3mar

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Jan 11, 2011

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• Jun 7, 2013

• #10

I use this

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain2\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain3\.co\.uk
RewriteRule .* - [F]

and when i click on the site with my backlink and click the backlinks is still redirecting to my site, no to 403... simple as no code added... is this ok ? what to do else ?

 

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bobred

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Dec 21, 2011

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• Jun 7, 2013

• #11

ad3mar said:

I use this

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain2\.net [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domain3\.co\.uk
RewriteRule .* - [F]

and when i click on the site with my backlink and click the backlinks is still redirecting to my site, no to 403... simple as no code added... is this ok ? what to do else ?

Click to expand...

I'm really not sure why people think this will help, when spidering google rarely provides a referrer, nor clicks through to your page from the 3rd party website. The only thing this will block is real actual people clicking the link on the backlink and visiting your site, probably not something you want to be doing!

 

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ad3mar

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Jan 11, 2011

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• Jun 7, 2013

• #12

But when we disable image hotlinks that works, right ?

For sites... last hours only about this i searched... i checked my backlinks and saw last months someone added my site with random anchors betweet a lot of sex related keywords... on purpose or hack, i need to do something and want to avoid the google tool. all are added randomly in site headers or hidden.

i bet that it was a hack fault and not an enemy... i had an curl iframe injection in many index.php files and seems like that helpes this backlink method...

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// i don't understand why i can't block those backlinks, when i click on them i am redirected to my site no issues, no error... aand tried all the codes found around for this trick, anyone has some code that worked for him ? Please post it. thanks.

 

Last edited: Jun 7, 2013