Bots by company
Ahrefs bots and crawlers
Ahrefs runs an SEO platform with one of the largest backlink indexes, plus the Yep search engine.
Ahrefs bots at a glance
- Ahrefs runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: SEO Tool Crawlers.
- Each Ahrefs bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: ahrefs.com
Every Ahrefs bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AhrefsBot | SEO Tool Crawlers | Search indexProduct featureOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
| AhrefsSiteAudit | SEO Tool Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Ahrefs bots
The rules below name every Ahrefs token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Ahrefs bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Ahrefs bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Ahrefs bots out of private areas only
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Ahrefs bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(AhrefsBot|AhrefsSiteAudit)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Ahrefs bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (AhrefsBot|AhrefsSiteAudit) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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