ahrefsbot

Name: ahrefsbot
Author: Ahrefs

GoodBotSEO

Operated by Ahrefs

What is ahrefsbot?

Generated from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

AhrefsBot is the primary web crawler operated by Ahrefs, a leading provider of SEO software and marketing intelligence tools. It systematically traverses the web to collect data on page structure, internal and external links, and content performance. This data is processed to power Ahrefs' comprehensive suite of SEO analytics tools, as well as the Yep search engine, allowing users to track their digital footprint and competitive landscape.

Helpful — It provides valuable data for website owners to analyze their backlink profiles, monitor competitors, and improve search engine visibility.

Details

Bot Name: ahrefsbot
Verification: Unknown
Category: SEO
Operator: Ahrefs

Main Use Cases

Backlink analysis and link buildingSEO performance monitoringSearch engine indexing for Yep.com

Why It Crawls Your Site

The bot crawls the web to build and maintain one of the largest live backlink indexes in the world. By continuously updating this index, Ahrefs enables site owners to audit their websites, identify technical SEO issues, and research content strategies. The operator maintains transparency by providing clear documentation on how to identify the bot via IP ranges and how to manage its crawl behavior through robots.txt directives.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block ahrefsbot

Add a Disallow rule for ahrefsbot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block ahrefsbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: ahrefsbot
Disallow: /

# Allow ahrefsbot full access
User-agent: ahrefsbot
Allow: /

Whitelist ahrefsbot

Ensure your robots.txt allows ahrefsbot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Known IP Ranges

5.39.1.2245.39.1.2255.39.1.2265.39.1.2275.39.1.2285.39.1.2295.39.1.2305.39.1.2315.39.1.2325.39.1.2335.39.1.2345.39.1.2355.39.1.2365.39.1.2375.39.1.2385.39.1.2395.39.1.2405.39.1.2415.39.1.2425.39.1.2435.39.1.2445.39.1.2455.39.1.2465.39.1.247

...and 9846 more IP ranges