How to block the Seekport Crawler
The Seekport Crawler is the bot for Seekport, a search engine. This page shows how to disallow it in robots.txt, what blocking it costs in Seekport visibility, and how to confirm the rule is honoured.
robots.txt rule
Seekport's crawler identifies with a self-identifying user agent containing its token. To disallow it site-wide:
User-agent: Seekport Crawler Disallow: /
Confirm the exact token from your access logs before committing, and match on the documented token rather than a version string. As with any engine, a Disallow asks the crawler to stop but does not enforce it.
- Target the documented Seekport Crawler token
- Confirm the token from your logs
- Leaves other search engines unaffected
Scope and limits
Blocking the Seekport Crawler affects only Seekport; Google, Bing, and others keep their own tokens and policies. A Disallow does not remove pages already in Seekport's index — use noindex on a fetchable URL for that.
Since the user agent can be copied, persistent hits after a correct rule may be a non-compliant client rather than the genuine Seekport Crawler.
How it appears in analytics and logs
Seekport Crawler hits mean the Seekport search engine is indexing your pages. Continued hits after a Disallow point to a cached robots.txt or a token mismatch.
Diagnostic use case
Reduce crawl load from the Seekport Crawler when Seekport visibility is not valuable to your audience.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID records the Seekport Crawler as a search bot so you can verify a block is respected and keep its hits out of human analytics.
Common mistakes
- Misspelling the Seekport token so the rule never matches.
- Expecting a Disallow to de-index existing Seekport results.
- Assuming the block affects other search engines.
Privacy and accuracy notes
The rule matches the Seekport Crawler token only; no visitor data is involved. robots.txt requests compliance from cooperative crawlers.
Related pages
- Seekport Crawler
Seekport Crawler is associated with the Seekport search project. Its user agent is reported to contain a SeekportBot identifier. Public documentation is sparse and some specifics cannot be confidently sourced, so this entry describes the identification pattern and leaves unconfirmed details unverified.
- How to block coccocbot in robots.txt
coccocbot is the crawler operated by Cốc Cốc, a search engine and browser popular in Vietnam. This page gives the robots.txt rule to disallow the coccocbot token and explains that it matters mainly if your audience includes Vietnamese-market users.
- User-agent groups and matching in robots.txt
robots.txt rules are organised into user-agent groups. A crawler does not combine every group — it selects the single most specific group whose token matches its name, falling back to the * group only when no named group matches. Understanding this prevents rules that never apply.
- Web crawler encyclopedia
Reference for niche search crawlers like the Seekport Crawler.
Sources and verification notes
- Google — How Google interprets robots.txtGeneral robots.txt syntax; Seekport token confirmed from logs.
Last reviewed 2026-06-24. Facts are checked against primary/official sources where available; uncertain specifics are marked “Data not yet verified” rather than guessed.