SemrushBotBacklinkAudit
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Operated by Semrush
seo crawler
Data collected by SEMrushBot is used for the Backlink Audit tool to check website backlinks
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
SemrushBot-BA
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control SemrushBotBacklinkAudit:
Allow full access
User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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