Okay, so I have websites and Wordpress blogs that link to a lot of useful sites - like professor webpages and other wordpress blogs. However, I don't want them to know of my sites or wordpress blogs. Is there a way to prevent them from being able to see them if they check the incoming links of their site? Would robots.txt work?
2 Answers
No, you'd have to use an anonymizer such as anonym.to.
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URL shorteners are in the market of shortening the URL;
http://www.example.com/wow/this/is/a/long/url?isnt#it
shortens to, say,http://bit.ly/123
. Anonymizers are only there to sit in the middle; the resultant would be similar tohttp://anonym.to/?http://www.example.com/wow/this/is/a/long/url%3fisnt%23it
. Feb 12, 2011 at 8:27
Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/download is a great solution for blocking all or just some tracking scripts on the web. It's highly configurable. I've not tested it out as I heard about it yesterday but it seems to do what you'd like.
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I'm sorry. I misread. The only way to block people from getting to your sites or blogs would be to block the people you don't want via IP range using .htaccess– perotyMar 22, 2011 at 20:26
robots.txt
is for browser or cralwer consumption, but compliance with it is voluntary androbots.txt
makes no provision for telling a browser not to transmit the HTTP-Referer header. Even if that was possible, it's a bad idea to rely on that as you're depending on the browser to obey that, but there's no way you can really force it to.