If you read my backlink analysis tips you might have already tried to analyze your competitors backlinks to create (or coordinate) your own linkbuilding strategy. Though maybe there were cases when you were really surprised to find that website with TOP positions for very competitive and popular keywords had just a few backlinks. At the same time that website wasn`t one of those most trusted Google web resources like WIKI or Ezinearticles. So what might be the secret of that website?
In my backlinks analysis tips I mentioned that there are two ways to hide your website backlinks from analysis. Now I`m going to describe these ways for you to use them for hiding your linkbuiding strategy from competitor`s eye.
1. Prevent your website from Yahoo indexing. Actually most of backlink analysis tools use Yahoo database to get website backlinks. The reason is that other search engines (including Google) don`t provide the full information about website backlinks set. So if you use your own satellites to link to your main website you can prevent them from Yahoo indexing and thus your competitors won`t be able to track these backlinks. For this purpose use the next syntax in your robots.txt file:
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /
As you might already guessed – Slurp is the name of Yahoo spider.
2. Use 301 redirect to transfer other website link weight to the website whose backlinks you are going to hide. Simply put if you build 1000 backlinks for SITE A and then redirect this website to SITE B – all the SITE A link weight will transfer to SITE B, but the trick is that any backlinks analysis tools aren`t able to consider this transfer and thus the competitors won`t be able to track 1000 backlinks providing link weight for SITE B. To implement 301 redirect add to the SITE A .htaccess file the next code:
Redirect 301 / http://www.sitea.com/
So, if you use the abovementioned methods to hide your backlinks set, don`t worry about your unique linkbuilding strategy – competitors will never find it)
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