SilktideBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTWebsite accessibility, SEO, and content quality scanner Operated by Silktide.
What is SilktideBot?
SilktideBot is a web crawler operated by Silktide. Website accessibility, SEO, and content quality scanner
Identification
SilktideHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- AI Crawl Control robots.txt injection ignores settings across 4 zones (Disallow per - Application Security / Bot Management - Cloudflare Community
- AI Crawl Control robots.txt injection ignores settings across 4 zones (Disallow per - Application Security / Bot Management - Cloudflare Community
- ChatGPT's Fetch Bot Ignores Robots.txt. Now What?
- Google Just Renamed a Bot That Ignores Your Robots.txt. Your Dealership Site Has Until August. | Savvy Dealer Blog
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
Why it crawls your site
SilktideBot crawls websites to test and verify website accessibility compliance. It is operated by Silktide as part of their accessibility testing infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow SilktideBot
Add a Disallow rule for Silktide 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 SilktideBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Silktide Disallow: / # Allow SilktideBot full access User-agent: Silktide Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Silktide. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Silktide's documentation.
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