SeekportBot user agent
Operated by Seekport
SeekportBot is the crawler of Seekport, a European search engine operated by SISTRIX.
The SeekportBot bot at a glance
- SeekportBot is operated by Seekport and crawls web pages for a search engine index.
- The robots.txt token for SeekportBot is SeekportBot.
- Blocking a search engine crawler removes your pages from that search engine's results.
- SeekportBot robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Allow.
What is SeekportBot?
SeekportBot indexes pages for the Seekport search engine.
Seekport documents its bot on a dedicated page.
Should you block SeekportBot?
Allow SeekportBot unless it causes a measurable load problem.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking a search engine crawler removes your pages from that search engine's results. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | AI features built on that search index, such as Google AI Overviews and AI Mode on top of Googlebot, also lose access to your pages. |
| Follows robots.txt | Yes |
| Recommendation | Allow |
How to block or allow SeekportBot
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token SeekportBot is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block SeekportBot
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow SeekportBot
User-agent: SeekportBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep SeekportBot out of private areas only
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to SeekportBot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(SeekportBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to SeekportBot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (SeekportBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "SeekportBot")How to verify real SeekportBot traffic
Seekport publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for SeekportBot, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find SeekportBot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts SeekportBot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "SeekportBot" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
SeekportBot user agent string
The full user agent Seekport publishes for SeekportBot. Version numbers such as Chrome/W.X.Y.Z change over time, so match the token, not the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)SeekportBot FAQ
SeekportBot identifies itself with the robots.txt token "SeekportBot". A typical request header reads: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeekportBot; +https://bot.seekport.com)
Yes. Seekport states that SeekportBot follows robots.txt rules written for the "SeekportBot" token.
Blocking a search engine crawler removes your pages from that search engine's results. AI features built on that search index, such as Google AI Overviews and AI Mode on top of Googlebot, also lose access to your pages.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: SeekportBot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Seekport publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for SeekportBot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "SeekportBot", for example with: grep -i "SeekportBot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Seekport crawler documentation. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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