Ahrefs
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AhrefsBot
Crawls the web for Ahrefs' SEO and backlink data and for the Yep search engine.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- AhrefsBot
- Operator
- Ahrefs
- Verification
- reverse DNS ahrefs.com, ahrefs.net
- Source
- Ahrefs documentation
What a bot for ads, link previews or SEO tools does
These bots work for a specific product: checking an ad's landing page, drawing the preview when a link is shared, or collecting data for an SEO tool. Some only visit because the site owner asked them to.
Block or allow AhrefsBot in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /Allow AhrefsBot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Allow: /More from Ahrefs
Questions, answered.
AhrefsBot is a bot for ads, link previews or SEO tools run by Ahrefs. Crawls the web for Ahrefs' SEO and backlink data and for the Yep search engine.
Yes. Ahrefs says AhrefsBot follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: AhrefsBot" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Run a reverse DNS lookup on the IP. A real request resolves to ahrefs.com, ahrefs.net, and a forward lookup of that name returns the same IP.
No. AhrefsBot works for one product, such as ad checks, link previews or SEO data, rather than bringing visitors.
Only if you don't use the product it works for. Blocking AhrefsBot is safe for your search rankings.
In its own documentation at https://ahrefs.com/robot. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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