Can i Disable Google crawler for two/three days?

[Mightyday696]

Hi,
I know directory with reciprocal link is bad seo. But is not it okay two disable Google bot to crawl my wordpress blog for few days. I am thinking that after i get submission confirmed in that directory i will remove the reciprocal link from my blog and enable google bot again.

[Simi Kaur]

Yes ofcourse u just change on robots.txt file like this
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Also u can use another method on your Meta tag
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow">

Another one as :

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">

This is add on your robots.txt file then Google not crawl your website.

[Jeanie]

Yes, You can disable with the help of "Robots.txt" file. These bots are automated, and before they access pages of a site, they check to see if a robots.txt file exists that prevents them from accessing certain pages. (All respectable robots will respect the directives in a robots.txt file, although some may interpret them differently.

[Alpine]

Well..yes,you can MAYBE take your site/blog offline using robots.txt -in my experience using robots.txt to block bots is about 70-80% effective.Now the question is DO YOU really want to do that?

Using Robots.txt is,in effect, telling Google "sorry, nothing to see here" ;when the robot visits a few times and gets that message,your site will start dropping in the rankings as Google doesn't want to direct searchers to pages with "nothing".

If you think a single link to a directory is going to upset your SEO that badly you need to ask yourself "do I want my site in this directory"-if it's a "quality website" you're linking to then don't worry about the link on your blog. If it's "low quality" site then it probably isn't going to help your SEO efforts anyway.

Oh..and one other thing..if you block the Google bot you also will lose the "link juice" from all your existing backlinks-so it's up to you to decide if this link,or blocking your site is worth it in the end.

[Nafisul]

Use this to disable google crawling:
In the head of your HTML document add these two meta tags:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow">

But i recommend not to go for reciprocal link anyway.

direct link exchanges haven't been effective for years. I mean years. I remember helping clients over 5 years ago that couldn't rank at all, take a look at their backlinks and they are all reciprocal links.

After going through and cleaning up the links at that time, before link removal was even an idea, we could finally help get those clients ranking again.

The only way to do link exchanges is to do something along the lines of what patco said. But even then that's not very effective as the link exchanges are always very easy to track. Most are on obscure internal pages with URLs that say linkexchange.php, links.php, /links/...

I would advise against this type of linkbuilding.

[Daniella]

yes , we can