diberry - 5:27 pm on Oct 23, 2012 (gmt 0)

Here's a question. What happens if you just block access to the sites whose links you don't want via htaccess rather than the disavow tool? Would the Google bot pick that up when following the link? And would they hold it against the site linking you, or against you?

This is what I'm talking about:

RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} badsite\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} anotherbadsite\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]

Visitors coming from those links get a Denied message, but everyone else can get through just like normal.