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Cloudflare-Traffic-Manager

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

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

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

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

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.