How to Hide your Backlinks

Hide backlinks. Hiding your backlinks will not let your competitors see the backlinks you have on your website.

There are two ways to hide your backlinks, 1. by editing the robots.txt file. and 2. by editing the .htaccess file.

To block Ahrefs, your robots.txt should look like this​:

User-agent: AhrefsBot

Disallow: /

Recommendations from ahrefs site: https://ahrefs.com/sv/robot

To block Semrush, your robots.txt should look like this​:

User-agent: SemrushBot

Disallow: /

Moz uses Rogerbot and Dotbot to crawl. Former for site analysis, the latter for a Link index.​

​Other services use their own custom bots.​

​Here’s a list to ban the most common crawlers :

User-agent: Rogerbot

User-agent: Exabot

User-agent: MJ12bot

User-agent: Dotbot

User-agent: Gigabot

User-agent: AhrefsBot

User-agent: BlackWidow

User-agent: ChinaClaw

User-agent: Custo

User-agent: DISCo

User-agent: Download\ Demon

User-agent: eCatch

User-agent: EirGrabber

User-agent: EmailSiphon

User-agent: EmailWolf

User-agent: Express\ WebPictures

User-agent: ExtractorPro

User-agent: EyeNetIE

User-agent: FlashGet

User-agent: GetRight

User-agent: GetWeb!

User-agent: Go!Zilla

User-agent: Go-Ahead-Got-It

User-agent: GrabNet

User-agent: Grafula

User-agent: HMView

User-agent: HTTrack

User-agent: Image\ Stripper

User-agent: Image\ Sucker

User-agent: Indy\ Library

User-agent: InterGET

User-agent: Internet\ Ninja

User-agent: JetCar

User-agent: JOC\ Web\ Spider

User-agent: larbin

User-agent: LeechFTP

User-agent: Mass\ Downloader

User-agent: MIDown\ tool

User-agent: Mister\ PiX

User-agent: Navroad

User-agent: NearSite

User-agent: NetAnts

User-agent: NetSpider

User-agent: Net\ Vampire

User-agent: NetZIP

User-agent: Octopus

User-agent: Offline\ Explorer

User-agent: Offline\ Navigator

User-agent: PageGrabber

User-agent: Papa\ Foto

User-agent: pavuk

User-agent: pcBrowser

User-agent: RealDownload

User-agent: ReGet

User-agent: SiteSnagger

User-agent: SmartDownload

User-agent: SuperBot

User-agent: SuperHTTP

User-agent: Surfbot

User-agent: tAkeOut

User-agent: Teleport\ Pro

User-agent: VoidEYE

User-agent: Web\ Image\ Collector

User-agent: Web\ Sucker

User-agent: WebAuto

User-agent: WebCopier

User-agent: WebFetch

User-agent: WebGo\ IS

User-agent: WebLeacher

User-agent: WebReaper

User-agent: WebSauger

User-agent: Website\ eXtractor

User-agent: Website\ Quester

User-agent: WebStripper

User-agent: WebWhacker

User-agent: WebZIP

User-agent: Wget

User-agent: Widow

User-agent: WWWOFFLE

User-agent: Xaldon\ WebSpider

User-agent: Zeus

Disallow: /

Once you have set those sites blocked on your website – data of your website will not show up on them.

The second way to hide your backlinks is to edit your .htacess file

Here is an example of how this can be done. Just add this code to your .htacess file:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*aboundexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ahrefsbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*backlinkcrawler.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blekkobo.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*blexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dotbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*dsearch.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*exabot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ezooms.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*gigabot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ia_archiver.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*linkdexbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*lipperhey spider.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-12.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*majestic-seo.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*meanpathbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*megaindex.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*mj12bot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*ncbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*nutch.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*pagesinventory.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*rogerbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*scoutjet.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*searchmetricsbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*semrushbot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*seokicks-robot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sistrix.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*sitebot.* botstop
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent .*spbot.* botstop
<Limit GET POST HEAD>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=botstop
</Limit>

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