LinkCheck

Name: LinkCheck
Author: Siteimprove

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

The Siteimprove LinkCheck crawler analyzes and monitors websites for quality assurance, SEO, and accessibility purposes, and keeps website content in line with brand guidelines and organizational policies. Operated by Siteimprove.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is LinkCheck?

LinkCheck is a web crawler operated by Siteimprove. The Siteimprove LinkCheck crawler analyzes and monitors websites for quality assurance, SEO, and accessibility purposes, and keeps website content in line with brand guidelines and organizational policies.

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

Identification

Bot name

LinkCheck

Operator

Siteimprove

Why it crawls your site

LinkCheck crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Siteimprove 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 LinkCheck

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for LinkCheck by Siteimprove 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 LinkCheck from crawling your entire site
User-agent: LinkCheck by Siteimprove
Disallow: /

# Allow LinkCheck full access
User-agent: LinkCheck by Siteimprove
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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