Seobility crawler — SECrawler audit bot
Seobility is a German SEO audit tool whose crawler fetches pages to check on-page issues, internal links, and technical health for its subscribers. It is a third-party SEO tool crawler, not a search engine. Seobility documents its crawler and provides robots.txt guidance for operators who want to identify or restrict it.
What this means
Seobility is a German SEO suite offering on-page audits, rank tracking, and backlink analysis. Its crawler fetches public pages to build on-page and technical reports for subscribers. It is a third-party SEO tool crawler, not a search-engine indexer, so it does not affect rankings.
You may see it whether or not you use Seobility, since the tool can audit any public site. That is expected behaviour for SEO audit crawlers.
How the Seobility crawler identifies itself
Seobility's crawler self-identifies with a Seobility token (documented as SECrawler / SeobilityBot) and a self-identifying URL in its user-agent string. Because the exact token naming is less broadly documented in English than the largest tools, this entry is marked partially verified — match on the documented Seobility token but confirm the current value in Seobility's documentation before relying on it.
The user agent is a claim that can be copied; verify where authenticity matters.
- robots.txt token: Seobility's documented crawler token (SECrawler / SeobilityBot — verify current value)
- User agent contains a Seobility-identifying URL
- A Germany-based SEO audit crawler, not a search-engine indexer
robots.txt control
Seobility's crawler honours robots.txt. To disallow it site-wide, target its confirmed token with a standard Disallow rule.
If load is the only concern, check whether the crawler supports crawl-delay before blocking it outright. robots.txt is a request honoured by compliant crawlers, not an access-control mechanism.
How it appears in analytics and logs
A request carrying the Seobility crawler token is the Seobility tool auditing a URL on a subscriber's behalf — a bot event, not a human visit. It usually reflects a deliberate on-page audit and should be counted as crawl coverage, not audience.
Diagnostic use case
Identify Seobility's crawler when an SEO audit runs against your site, allow it for your own audits, and restrict it via robots.txt when an external crawl is unwanted.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID classifies Seobility's crawler server-side as an SEO crawler and surfaces its activity on the bot-intelligence surface, separate from human analytics, so you can see on-page audit hits without log parsing.
Common mistakes
- Treating Seobility audit hits as human traffic in analytics.
- Blocking on a guessed token instead of the confirmed Seobility token.
- Assuming Seobility indexes pages for a search engine — it audits them.
Privacy and accuracy notes
Seobility crawler detection uses only the request user-agent. No human identity is involved. WebmasterID records the crawl as a bot event, separate from human analytics, and never attaches it to a visitor profile.
Related pages
- SISTRIX crawler — SISTRIXCrawler bot
The SISTRIX crawler fetches pages to build data for the SISTRIX SEO toolbox, including its visibility and on-page analyses. It is a third-party SEO tool crawler based in Germany, not a search engine. SISTRIX documents the crawler and provides guidance for operators who want to identify or restrict it.
- Sitebulb crawler — desktop/cloud SEO auditor
Sitebulb is a desktop and cloud SEO auditing tool whose crawler fetches pages to map site structure, internal links, and on-page issues. It is a third-party SEO tool crawler, not a search engine. Sitebulb documents its user agent and supports robots.txt handling and a configurable crawl identity.
- Search crawlers vs SEO crawlers
Search-engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bingbot build the indexes that determine search visibility. Third-party SEO crawlers like AhrefsBot and SemrushBot feed analysis tools and do not affect rankings directly. Distinguishing them matters for crawl-budget reasoning and for deciding what to allow or limit.
- Bot intelligence
Deterministic categorisation of crawlers, search bots, and audit tools.
Sources and verification notes
- Seobility — crawler documentationSeobility documents its crawler (SECrawler / SeobilityBot); verify current token in its docs.
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.