SEO & backlink crawlers

DataForSeoBot

DataForSEO's backlink-checker crawler; adds newly found links to its backlink database and rechecks existing ones, which is resold via API to SEO tools.

Dossier

Operator: DataForSEO
Documentation: dataforseo.com
robots.txt token: DataForSeoBot
Feeds: SEO backlink index
Follows robots.txt: Yes, per its documentationDocs: obeys robots.txt and Crawl-delay; default about one visit per 5 s.
How to verify: Published IP ranges and reverse DNSdataforseo.com
Names in our logs: dataforseobot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 2,638
Days active: 1 / 93
First seen: 27 Sept 2026
Last seen: 27 Sept 2026

Dormantother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

dataforseo.comdataforseo.com/dataforseo-bot