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ahrefsbot

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AhrefsBot is a Web Crawler that powers the 12 trillion link database for Ahrefs online marketing toolset. It constantly crawls web to fill our database with new links and check the status of the previously found ones to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute data to our users. Operated by Ahrefs.

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Assessment
SEO
Category
BOT
Kind
3
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is ahrefsbot?

AhrefsBot is a web crawler operated by Ahrefs. AhrefsBot is a Web Crawler that powers the 12 trillion link database for Ahrefs online marketing toolset. It constantly crawls web to fill our database with new links and check the status of the previously found ones to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-the-minute data to our users.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
ahrefsbot
Operator
Ahrefs
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
ahrefsbot
User-agent patterns
AhrefsBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/)
Main use cases
SEO analysisBacklink discoverySearch ranking monitoring
Rated Sep 23, 2026 from public evidence

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

AhrefsBot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Ahrefs as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from ahrefsbot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow ahrefsbot

Block it

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: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows AhrefsBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Ahrefs's documentation.

Traffic & trends

Cloudflare Radar traffic
3.8%

Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.

Google Trends interest

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From the community

Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.

Related bots

Other crawlers operated by Ahrefs.

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Links & references

Ahrefs documentation
ahrefs.com/robot
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Cloudflare Radar: ahrefsbot
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/ahrefsbot
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadarCrawlersDatabaseGithubWhitelist
Last updated October 25, 2026

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