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DataForSeoBot

DataForSeoBot is the tool or developer fetch run by DataForSEO: crawls pages for DataForSEO's SEO data products. Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.

User-agent tokenDataForSeoBot
OperatorDataForSEO
What it doescrawls pages for DataForSEO's SEO data products
Kindtool or developer fetch
Can a request be verified?No — user agent string only
In a CrawlCheck scanRead from robots.txt; reported, never scored

Allow or block it in robots.txt

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Allow: /

Add a group that names it: "User-agent: DataForSeoBot" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names DataForSeoBot, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.

What blocking it changes

No. It is a third-party tool's crawler. Blocking it changes what that tool knows about your site, not anyone's AI answers.

See what DataForSeoBot and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.

Questions about DataForSeoBot

QHow do I block DataForSeoBot in robots.txt?
Add a group that names it: "User-agent: DataForSeoBot" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names DataForSeoBot, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.
QHow can I tell if a request from DataForSeoBot is real?
Its operator publishes no IP ranges or DNS names for it, so a request carrying this name cannot be verified. Treat the name in a log line as a claim.
QDoes blocking DataForSeoBot affect whether my site appears in AI answers?
No. It is a third-party tool's crawler. Blocking it changes what that tool knows about your site, not anyone's AI answers.
QDoes CrawlCheck test my site as DataForSeoBot?
Not as a request. CrawlCheck reads the rules your robots.txt sets for DataForSeoBot and reports them. Rules for it are reported and never scored, because refusing it is a policy choice.