SemrushBot-BA

Semrush · SEO and backlink crawlers · json

User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenSemrushBot-BA
User-agent containsSemrushBot-BA
OperatorSemrush
CategorySEO and backlink crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

The Backlink Audit crawler. It re-checks links pointing at a customer's site, which means it lands on the sites doing the linking.

What blocking it costs you

None to you. It costs the site being audited a little accuracy in their backlink report.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot-BA; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html)

Allow it instead

User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://www.semrush.com/bot/
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-seo-tools