What is DataForSeoBot?
It crawls pages and adds the links it finds to DataForSEO's backlink database.
Crawls for an SEO product: backlink indexes, site audits, rank data. It sends no visitors; blocking it is common and harmless.
DataForSEO lists its subnets on its bot page. Its default crawl delay is 5 seconds.
DataForSeoBot user agent
DataForSEO documents this user agent for DataForSeoBot. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DataForSeoBot; +https://dataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot)Should you block DataForSeoBot?
Block it freely if the load bothers you. It sends no visitors; the only cost is that the tool’s users, your competitors included, see less of your site.
How to block DataForSeoBot in robots.txt
Add a group for its token to robots.txt at the root of your site.
A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your User-agent: * rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /How to verify a request is really DataForSeoBot
Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.
DataForSEO publishes the IP ranges DataForSeoBot crawls from. A request that claims to be DataForSeoBot from any other address is not DataForSeoBot.
Or check by reverse DNS: look up the hostname of the request’s IP, confirm it ends in dataforseo.com, then look that hostname up again and confirm it points back to the same IP.
See when DataForSeoBot reads your site
Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.
Checked against DataForSEO’s own documentation on . Something changed? Write to help@invisit.dev.