What SERankingBacklinksBot does
SERankingBacklinksBot crawls the web to gather information about the link structure of sites and how they interlink. Per SE Ranking's documentation, it reads and stores only the links found on your pages, not text, graphic, or video content, and it collects only publicly accessible information. It identifies itself with the user agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SERankingBacklinksBot/1.0; +https://seranking.com/backlinks-crawler)' and respects robots.txt, applying a default crawl delay of 3 seconds when no delay is set or when robots.txt is not served with an HTTP 200 status.
How to control SERankingBacklinksBot
Target SERankingBacklinksBot in your robots.txt with the SERankingBacklinksBot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow SERankingBacklinksBot
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Allow: /Block SERankingBacklinksBot
User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot
Disallow: /SE Ranking supports reverse DNS verification (lookups resolve to a *.seranking.com subdomain), publishes a live crawler IP list at https://api.seranking.com/backlinks-bot-ips, and notes that after a robots.txt change the bot can take up to one day to fully stop crawling because queued pages may still be processed.
How to identify SERankingBacklinksBot
Temso identifies SERankingBacklinksBottraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
SERankingBacklinksBotSERankingBacklinksBot FAQ
What is SERankingBacklinksBot?
SERankingBacklinksBot is SE Ranking's crawler for collecting data on site link structure and interlinking across the web. It stores only the links found on your pages, not any page content.
How do I block SERankingBacklinksBot?
Add a robots.txt group with 'User-agent: SERankingBacklinksBot' and 'Disallow: /', and make sure robots.txt returns HTTP 200, since the bot treats a non-200 response as no file. SE Ranking notes it can take up to one day for crawling to fully stop after the change, and Crawl-delay is supported if you prefer to slow it down instead.
About SEO & Analytics Crawlers
Crawlers behind SEO and marketing-intelligence platforms: backlink databases, site audits, rank tracking, and brand monitoring.
Blocking these has no effect on search or AI visibility. It mainly limits what third-party tools (including your competitors' tools) can see about your site.
