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Majestic bots and crawlers
Majestic runs a backlink intelligence database built by its distributed crawler.
Majestic bots at a glance
- Majestic runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: SEO Tool Crawlers.
- Each Majestic bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: majestic.com
Every Majestic bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MJ12bot | SEO Tool Crawlers | Search indexProduct featureOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
Block or allow all Majestic bots
The rules below name every Majestic 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 Majestic bots
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Majestic bots
User-agent: MJ12bot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Majestic bots out of private areas only
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Majestic bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(MJ12bot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Majestic bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (MJ12bot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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