Blocking Google Bot?

[Tro Shi]

I've heard people joking around about 'blocking google bot' and then hiring a ranking service that pays per serp improvement.

How do you block Googlebot? And wouldn't this completely remove you from serps if you blocked the bots?

 

[mikeshinobi]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

 

[Tro Shi]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

But how would you hide it / disguise so that a company / individual wouldn't find out you changed it?

 

[Cotillion]

Just write your robots.txt using MS Word and white font color: nobody'll find out.

And no: this won't remove you from G's serps. From Bing's or Yahoo's maybe, but not from G's. I read it on a blog recently.

 

[Tro Shi]

Just write your robots.txt using MS Word and white font color: nobody'll find out.

And no: this won't remove you from G's serps. From Bing's or Yahoo's maybe, but not from G's. I read it on a blog recently.

This must be recent if its true.. I've seen other threads on here mention blocking robots. Got a source?

 

[JCash]

Thou art indeed nubs. Thy googlebot block must verily be put to thy server configuration or .htaccess with rules proper and just, or thy subterfuge will be obvious:

RewriteEngine On
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Googlebot fuckno=yes
RewriteCond %{ENV:fuckno} yes
RewriteRule .* - [R=500,L]
RewriteRule . -

Thou mayest change 500 to whatever HTTP response thy heart desireth. 410 maketh your site seem deleted to Googlebot, ken ye?

 

[JCash]

Good luck bros.

 

[debian]

Thou art indeed nubs. Thy googlebot block must verily be put to thy server configuration or .htaccess with rules proper and just, or thy subterfuge will be obvious:

RewriteEngine On
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Googlebot fuckno=yes
RewriteCond %{ENV:fuckno} yes
RewriteRule .* - [R=500,L]
RewriteRule . -

Thou mayest change 500 to whatever HTTP response thy heart desireth. 410 maketh your site seem deleted to Googlebot, ken ye?

Don't forget to put this in your humans.txt too.

 

[inplainview]

If you want to hide a single link on a page, simply use the "rel" tag.

 

[Bompa]

I've heard people joking around about 'blocking google bot' and then hiring a ranking service that pays per serp improvement.

HIRE a ranking service that PAYS?

WTF?

How do you block Googlebot? And wouldn't this completely remove you from serps if you blocked the bots?

Just search google for block bots htaccess


Yes, it will remove the site/pages.


Bompa