How would you hide your backlinks to a landing page farming / tracking domain if you had no control over the referrer sites, such as in case of using parasite pages?

As far as I understand, all robots noindex, nofollow can do for the site which I want to hide the backlinks is preventing pages from being listed by the site: operator in G.

But for backlinks, Y! is the treat.

So far my best idea was to use subdomains for each project / backlink network. I hope I've been just enjoying my latest brainfart and there is an elegant solution out there.

thanks in advance,
Karl

Hi Karl,

I'm not sure I fully understand the question...But it's pretty hard to hide who links to you, if someone wants to know.

IMO, the best thing is to build a lot of third party resources, build links to them, then link to your own pages. Also, add "sacrificial links", which are high quality links to sites that are huge and a few extra links won't affect them, like wikipedia, about.com, etc.

Mix in links to these high quality sites will camoflage your linking a little, while aiding in what is known as "co-citation", meaning your own page is mentioned with high quality pages, so it too must be good.

However, this works best with content pages as opposed to sales pages, etc.

There are some projects where I can't or don't want to build a site that ranks organically (fleeting trends or keywords which are difficult to rank for), so I just capture traffic on interlinked social properties and send visitors to a single domain where I track everything and host all of my landing pages.

The thing is, it's not cost effective to have a tracking/landing page farming domain like this for all of my campaigns / keyword groups. One is enough since I can't / don't want to capture organic traffic and getting penalized by social spamming or lack of theming is not an issue here.

Lately I spotted some guys snooping around one of my terminal. I know what they are doing because I do the same. They looking for my backlinks to reverse engineer my profitable campaigns.

I don't do sacrifice linking on social properties, as they already have authority. I also use an interlinking pattern which practically makes it superfluous. And if I would aggregate keyword authority on third party sites before my terminals I would end up with the same situation of having the need for at least one domain per campaign. I sometimes bounce visitors through a shadow domain if I see some hope for quick rankings but that's more of an exception.

The only solution I came up with so far to protect my campaigns was to segment my backlink network on subdomains, using one subdomain per each tracked redirect. It's only an idea so far and may not work at all. What you think?

I also understand that hiding backlinks is not possible if you don't own the sites linking to you, and hiding when they do is a footprint.

I apologize, but I still don't understand the full picture.

If the spies are looking for patterns, I'd keep linking so they don't know which links are effective.

Use the Linking thread/LinkBomb and start getting tons of links, which can help in a number of ways. Video, software, articles, podcasts, etc.

I wish I could be of more help, but I'm just not getting the grasp of the situation.

That's a pretty good idea actually - building random, unfocused links to my tracking sites. I should not forget adding fake tracking variables to the incoming links.

Since the site has not built to rank organically per se I don't need to protect any theme. So I can use duplicate/PLR content of really any kind and outsource the whole thing or just spam away carelessly. Looks like finally I got a chance at acting out with Xrumer.

Thanks for your advice,
Karl

Hey Karl,

Glad I could be of service, even if I don't know why.