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Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager

Name: Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager
Author: Cloudflare

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Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager service. Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

SEO

What is Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager?

Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager service.

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

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager

Operator

Cloudflare

Why it crawls your site

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

Block or allow Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager 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 Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager full access
User-agent: Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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