Aug 11, 2020
Blocking linking website IP address
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Can we block website IP instead of disavowing them?
Blocking IP address also block google bot to surf our website via that website's backlink?
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Aug 18, 2020
That seems a very different problem. And probably very little to do with those 'back-links'.
You can't inform Google about 'negative keywords' - words that site should match for. Just not possible.
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Aug 11, 2020
What benefit do you think they get??
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Aug 11, 2020
Where would you block this IP addres? What would it be blocking?
Google finds 'backlinks' when it crawls the web itself. It does this by contacting their server(s) directly.
There is no where got you to 'insert' this blacklist check. When Google crawls it does not consult any blacklist that you control.
When Google crawls your site it does it from its own IP address, its not context sensitive to where the link comes from. Ie could block Googlebot completely, but not just crawling a link it found from particular website.
Worrying about these backlinks is typically counterproductive, there is typically nothing you can nor should do about them. They just are. Google knows they spammy.
If really concerned disavow is about the only thing can do. But even that typically not worth it, and dangourous. Misuse of the tool can do more harm.
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Where would you block this IP addres? What would it be blocking?
Google finds 'backlinks' when it crawls the web itself. It does this by contacting their server(s) directly.
There is no where got you to 'insert' this blacklist check. When Google crawls it does not consult any blacklist that you control.
When Google crawls your site it does it from its own IP address, its not context sensitive to where the link comes from. Ie could block Googlebot completely, but not just crawling a link it found from particular website.
Worrying about these backlinks is typically counterproductive, there is typically nothing you can nor should do about them. They just are. Google knows they spammy.
If really concerned disavow is about the only thing can do. But even that typically not worth it, and dangourous. Misuse of the tool can do more harm.
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Aug 11, 2020
Aug 11, 2020
.htaccess etc, would have access the the HTTP "Referer" header, And the IP address of the actual visitor.
When someone clicks a link the server does not get the IP address of the site with the link. It could potentially lookup the IP (using DNS!) of the hostname in the Referer, but thats all. And in that case blocking by hostname would almost certainly be mroe reliable that a looked IP address.
But htat is only affecting users. clickjing links on those paes.
Its immaterial as far as search engines concerned.
The search engine will just crawl your pages, and will NOT send a HTTP referer. So you have no opportunity to even know where the bot found that link, let alone be able to 'block' it.
Aug 11, 2020
Thanks, Barry, for your valuable information. I have tried to block one website's IP as a final solution, but it would not help me as per your informative answer.
Actually, the main problem is that one website (bharatpages.in) is building spamming on my website. I can see the same Linking page is linked to the same Target URL (Seems linking own site back), still why it's showing my website's GSC?

What kind of spamming they are doing? I have tried to view the source of Target URL and I didn't find my website link there.
Besides this, I also found they are trying to do spam with multiple porn links and due to that, we got ranked for unnecessary search queries (Ex. x video com, xnxx india etc.)

I have tried to disavow that all domain but I didn't find it helpful. So, should I have to just ignore it or need to take some serious action here?
Note: My website is hidden because of privacy concerns.
Aug 11, 2020
That juust looks like general referer spam.
Just ignore it. Its not worth worrying about.
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Aug 14, 2020
Check out the below-attached screenshot for search queries that search console is showing. (Unnecessary queries are india xnxx, nnxx india etc.)

That seems a very different problem. And probably very little to do with those 'back-links'.
You can't inform Google about 'negative keywords' - words that site should match for. Just not possible.
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Aug 18, 2020
Aug 19, 2020
Well you can filter the report if you want to 'not see' some queries.