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What is SeobilityBot?

Direct Answer: The Seobility Bot is an SEO tool operated by Seobility that crawls websites to gather SEO information.

Operator: Seobility Type: SEO Tool Purpose: SEO information gathering and analysis

The Seobility Bot is a web crawler used by Seobility to gather SEO information from websites. It can be controlled using specific directives in the robots.txt file. The bot will follow all * directives unless a Seobility-specific directive is provided.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify SeobilityBot in your live traffic data:

  • SeobilityBot (SEO Tool; https://www.seobility.net/sites/bot.html)

robots.txt Rules for SeobilityBot

Respects robots.txt: No

Use the following robots.txt rules to control SeobilityBot access:

# Block SeobilityBot
User-agent: SeobilityBot (SEO Tool; https://www.seobility.net/sites/bot.html)
Disallow: /

# Allow SeobilityBot
User-agent: SeobilityBot (SEO Tool; https://www.seobility.net/sites/bot.html)
Allow: /

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

SeobilityBot does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.

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Crawl Behavior

Frequency:Not Documented

Request Pattern:Not Documented

Official Documentation Quotes

"The Seobility Bot crawls sites to gather SEO-Information."

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for SeobilityBot over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.

View recent activity data (last 7 days)
Date Activity Index
Mar 28, 2026 40.1
Mar 29, 2026 39.0
Mar 30, 2026 57.3
Mar 31, 2026 44.4
Apr 1, 2026 47.2
Apr 2, 2026 43.1
Apr 3, 2026 50.5

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track SeobilityBot traffic?

Control third-party crawl impact on your server. SeobilityBot crawls your site to build Seobility's SEO database. While useful for competitive analysis, these crawlers can consume significant server resources on large sites.

Identify who's analyzing your site. SeobilityBot visits reveal when competitors or agencies are running audits on your domain.

Manage crawl priority. If SeobilityBot is consuming crawl budget you'd rather allocate to search engines, you can throttle or block it based on measured volume.

Surface 4XX and 5XX errors before search engines find them. If SeobilityBot reports broken pages or server errors in its crawl data, you can fix those issues proactively — before search engine crawlers encounter them and your rankings suffer.

Is SeobilityBot worth the server resources?

SeobilityBot crawls your site to build Seobility's SEO database. Unlike search engines, this crawler doesn't send you any referral traffic — it feeds a third-party tool.

That's not necessarily a problem — Seobility's data may power tools you use yourself. The question is whether SeobilityBot's crawl volume is proportionate to its value.

What Can AI See It measures

Crawl volume

Requests per day and bandwidth consumed by SeobilityBot

Resource share

What % of your total bot traffic is SeobilityBot?

Fake bot detection

Scrapers spoofing SeobilityBot's user-agent string

Log Verification

To verify SeobilityBot traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Seobility)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Undocumented Information

The following information is not officially documented for SeobilityBot:

  • crawl frequency
  • IP verification
  • JavaScript rendering

See which SEO tools are crawling your site — and how much they cost you

  • Identify third-party crawlers consuming your server resources
  • Separate SEO tool traffic from search engine crawls
  • Detect fake bots spoofing SeobilityBot's user-agent
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Official Documentation

View Official SeobilityBot Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.