Aug 11, 2020

Blocking linking website IP address

Suppose a competitor is spamming on my website by building bad backlinks (mainly porn sites). So, if I block the IP address of the linking site (Porn website which is linking to us) can reduce the negative SEO impact? 

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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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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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Aug 11, 2020
Talking about .htaccess file or header where we can include the IP of website from we got dofollw link. While blocking IP, I have seen user are blocked from visiting website, same could be applied for bot also while it try to visit website using dofollw attribute?
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. 
Aug 11, 2020
Thanks for very helpful guidance. I hope google takes serious action on this kind of sites which are doing spamming for their personal benefits.
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Aug 11, 2020
What benefit do you think they get??
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Aug 11, 2020
Not sure about their benefits, but they do this kind of activity to get more traffic by Indexing multiple URLs (Its clear seen that they are creating various URLs using different websites domain name).
Aug 14, 2020
Okay, I'm just ignoring this as you are saying referral spam is not worth worrying about. But how these all spam queries will be removed? When google will stop showing my website for these queries? How can I inform google about not showing my website for this unnecessary queries? 

Check out the below-attached screenshot for search queries that search console is showing. (Unnecessary queries are india xnxx, nnxx india etc.)

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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 18, 2020
Then, what can I do here without just ignoring that unnecessary search queries to get rid over it all? Please, guide me.
Aug 19, 2020
Well you can filter the report if you want to 'not see' some queries. 
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