Hi - I have a site that I have got to a decent earning position in the engines and I want to hide the backlink footprint if possible, I was going to redirect the site to another new one via 301 and build a wave of links to the new site to try to create a little bit of a smokescreen if annyone tries to work out my link footprint but I wondered if I just blocked yahoo from crawling if this would be enough to to stop my backlinks appearing when people checked in yahoo, I tried overnight but there was no effect so I am not sure if it will work or I just need to wait longer, can anyone share any experiance here on this? I am getting about 10% of traffic from yahoo I would be happy to lose for the 90 from google to be maintainied with no one able to work out my baclink stratergy? Thanks for reading
I would suggest you don't get obsessed with this. In this competition world the best place you can achieve is by being a quality producer only not by copying other efforts. I would remind an old saying, 'You can imitate some one but you can live like them'.
you can disallow your pages from indexing using the robots.txt file of your site and change it when you want.. use robots.txt file
If you 301 redirect, disallow, or otherwise attempt to "hide" your backlinks due to your paranoia, you are going to ruin any SEO rankings you might currently have. And if you try any type of sneaky redirects or cloaking, you could end up getting yourself banned by Google and/or Yahoo! Forget about the fact that people can see SOME of your backlinks. Even at Yahoo! it's just a sample of your backllnks (a much larger sample than is shown at Google... but a sample none-the-less). It's not a problem, unless of course you have done something wrong like black hat link building and you're now concerned that you might be reported. If that is the case, you're screwed either way.
Links could always be traced back, and there's a good chance your strategy is well known anyways. Unless your site sells the strategy your using for it you shouldn't worry too much about your competition finding out about it. You can try to use a 301 redirect but Google doesn't always transfer all links. Because people would just buy a bunch of backlink rich domains and 301 them to compound pr. Your best option would have been to use multi level link strategy (mass links to articles to landing pages to your site)