DataForSEO Bot

Name: DataForSEO Bot
Author: DataForSEO

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DataForSEO Bot is a driving force of our leading product - Backlinks API, which has been developed with a single purpose: providing website owners, webmasters, and SEO professionals with opportunities to analyze the key component of website optimization – backlink analytics. You can learn more about the DataForSEO Bot on this dedicated page: https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot Operated by DataForSEO.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is DataForSEO Bot?

DataForSEO Bot is a web crawler operated by DataForSEO. DataForSEO Bot is a driving force of our leading product - Backlinks API, which has been developed with a single purpose: providing website owners, webmasters, and SEO professionals with opportunities to analyze the key component of website optimization – backlink analytics. You can learn more about the DataForSEO Bot on this dedicated page: https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot

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

Identification

Bot name

DataForSEO Bot

Operator

DataForSEO

Why it crawls your site

DataForSEO Bot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by DataForSEO 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 DataForSEO Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for DataForSeoBot 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 DataForSEO Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# Allow DataForSEO Bot full access
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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