AhrefsBot
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What is AhrefsBot?
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Ahrefs' SEO crawler
Ahrefs
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your website logs, it indicates that AhrefsBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.2; News; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.2; News; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your website logs, it indicates that AhrefsBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.2; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/5.2; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your website logs, it indicates that AhrefsBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; News; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/6.1; News; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your website logs, it indicates that AhrefsBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AhrefsBot/7.0; +http://ahrefs.com/robot/) in your website logs, it indicates that AhrefsBot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
Web crawlers visit websites on a regular schedule to index content for search engines or other services. They typically follow a consistent crawling pattern and respect robots.txt directives.
Should I Block AhrefsBot?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
Recommended Solution
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block AhrefsBot?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
AhrefsBotShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block AhrefsBot User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: /
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