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SE Ranking bots and crawlers
SE Ranking runs an SEO platform with rank tracking and a backlink database.
SE Ranking bots at a glance
- SE Ranking runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: SEO Tool Crawlers.
- Each SE Ranking bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: seranking.com
Every SE Ranking bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERankingBacklinksBot | SEO Tool Crawlers | Search indexProduct featureReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all SE Ranking bots
The rules below name every SE Ranking 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 SE Ranking bots
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all SE Ranking bots
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all SE Ranking bots out of private areas only
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all SE Ranking bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(SERankingBacklinksBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all SE Ranking bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (SERankingBacklinksBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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