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SemrushBot-OCOB

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Semrush is an all-in-one tool suite for improving online visibility and discovering marketing insights. Operated by Semrush.

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Assessment

AI Crawler

What is SemrushBot-OCOB?

SemrushBot-OCOB is a web crawler operated by Semrush. Semrush is an all-in-one tool suite for improving online visibility and discovering marketing insights. It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

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

Identification

Bot name

SemrushBot-OCOB

Operator

Semrush

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

Yes

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

Some reports found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

SemrushBot-OCOB crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Semrush as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow SemrushBot-OCOB

Block it

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

# Allow SemrushBot-OCOB full access
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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