Blocking Bad Back Links and blocking IP's or Bad Neighbourhood Links

Blocking Bad Back Links and IP's


Here is the process I mentioned yesterday to block bad back links;

The problem; Google bowling or bad SEO created multiple bad back links from porn sites but you can't contact (or don't want to spend the weeks it could take) them to get them removed.

The Solution; Download the back links from Majestic SEO. Run them through the bulk URL check at SearchMetrics. Isolate the url's that you want to block.

If the site is on an Apache server you can build the block into the htaccess file from the cpanel. I believe you can also configure a mod rewrite for this but haven't done it myself and you would only want a 403 to be returned for specific IPs.

If you have control of the server you can use pre-built GUI programs like PG2, Peerblock or ProxyBlock

Last option is to contact the ISP (like with domains that will not allow cpanel/backend access) directly and ask them to block the list of IP's. This is a bit more difficult because the last time I went through it (4 yrs ago) many of the tech guys didn't know how to do this without detailed instructions.

I have also built the htaccess file with bad IP's already in it and sent it over with simple instructions to look it over and then upload it and this seems to work if they understand what you are doing it for.

You can find more tips From an SEO Company at www.BlueClaw.co.uk. We are located in Leeds, UK.