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Semrushbot

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Semrushbot crawls your website to analyze it for different SEO and technical issues. Operated by Semrush.

GoodBot
Assessment
SEO
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Semrushbot?

Semrushbot is a web crawler operated by Semrush. Semrushbot crawls your website to analyze it for different SEO and technical issues.

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

Identification

Bot name
Semrushbot
Operator
Semrush
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
semrush-sa
User-agent patterns
SemrushBot-SA
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot-SA/0.97; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)
Main use cases
SEO analysisBacklink discoverySearch ranking monitoring

Why it crawls your site

Semrushbot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Semrush 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 Semrushbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SemrushBot-SA 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 Semrushbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /

# Allow Semrushbot full access
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 21, 2026