SeobilityBot user agent
Operated by Seobility
SeobilityBot is the crawler of Seobility's SEO checker and site audit tool.
The SeobilityBot bot at a glance
- SeobilityBot is operated by Seobility and fetches pages to power a specific product feature.
- The robots.txt token for SeobilityBot is SeobilityBot.
- Blocking an SEO tool crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- SeobilityBot robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is SeobilityBot?
SeobilityBot crawls sites that Seobility users audit.
Seobility publishes its user agent and IP addresses in its help center.
Should you block SeobilityBot?
Blocking SeobilityBot is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an SEO tool crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | No effect on AI answers. Blocking hides your pages and backlinks from that SEO tool, including from competitors who use it, and breaks your own audits in that tool. |
| Follows robots.txt | Yes |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow SeobilityBot
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 SeobilityBot is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block SeobilityBot
User-agent: SeobilityBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow SeobilityBot
User-agent: SeobilityBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep SeobilityBot out of private areas only
User-agent: SeobilityBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to SeobilityBot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(SeobilityBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to SeobilityBot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (SeobilityBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "SeobilityBot")How to verify real SeobilityBot traffic
Seobility publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for SeobilityBot, 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 SeobilityBot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts SeobilityBot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "SeobilityBot" 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.
SeobilityBot user agent string
The full user agent Seobility publishes for SeobilityBot. Version numbers such as Chrome/W.X.Y.Z change over time, so match the token, not the whole string.
SeobilityBot (SEO Tool; https://www.seobility.net/sites/bot.html)SeobilityBot FAQ
SeobilityBot identifies itself with the robots.txt token "SeobilityBot". A typical request header reads: SeobilityBot (SEO Tool; https://www.seobility.net/sites/bot.html)
Yes. Seobility states that SeobilityBot follows robots.txt rules written for the "SeobilityBot" token.
Blocking an SEO tool crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. No effect on AI answers. Blocking hides your pages and backlinks from that SEO tool, including from competitors who use it, and breaks your own audits in that tool.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: SeobilityBot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Seobility publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for SeobilityBot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "SeobilityBot", for example with: grep -i "SeobilityBot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Seobility crawler documentation. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
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