SEranking and Mangools crawlers
SEranking and Mangools are SEO software platforms whose crawlers fetch web pages, backlinks, and on-page signals to power site audits, rank tracking, and keyword research for their subscribers. They are SEO data crawlers, not search engines: they build private datasets for marketing tools rather than a public index. Both publish self-identifying crawler user-agents so operators can recognise and control them in robots.txt.
What this means
SEranking is an SEO platform offering rank tracking, site audits, and competitor analysis; Mangools offers keyword research and backlink tools such as KWFinder and LinkMiner. Both run crawlers that fetch pages and link data to populate their datasets.
Neither is a search engine. The data they collect powers their own marketing tools, not a public consumer index. Group them with other SEO crawlers like Ahrefs and Semrush when categorising traffic.
How they identify themselves
Each platform documents a self-identifying crawler user-agent referencing its bot. Because the two tools' exact tokens and IP ranges are not always published in a single canonical place and Mangools draws on multiple data sources, this combined entry is marked partially verified; the SEO-tool identity and data-collection purpose are the reliable signals.
As with any crawler, user-agents are claims and can be copied. Match on each platform's documented token and corroborate with behaviour where authenticity matters.
- SEranking: rank tracking, audits, competitor analysis
- Mangools: keyword research and backlink tools (KWFinder, LinkMiner)
- Purpose: private SEO datasets, not public search indexing
robots.txt considerations
To manage SEO crawl load, target each platform's documented user-agent token in robots.txt. Treat SEranking and Mangools the same way you treat other SEO crawlers: allow them if you use the tools or want competitive visibility; restrict them to conserve crawl resources.
robots.txt is honoured by compliant crawlers and is not an access control. Blocking a tool's crawler does not remove data it derives from third-party sources.
How it appears in analytics and logs
A request from an SEranking or Mangools crawler means an SEO toolkit fetched your page or links as input to audits, rank tracking, or backlink data. It is SEO data-collection bot traffic, not a human visit and not a search-index crawl.
Diagnostic use case
Recognise SEranking and Mangools SEO crawlers in logs, group them with other SEO data tools, and decide robots.txt policy for marketing-research crawling rather than search indexing.
What WebmasterID can help detect
WebmasterID classifies SEranking and Mangools crawlers server-side as SEO data collectors and surfaces their activity on the bot-intelligence surface, so SEO crawl load stays separate from human analytics.
Common mistakes
- Treating SEO-tool crawlers as search engines that index your pages for end users.
- Assuming one robots.txt rule covers both SEranking and Mangools — each has its own token.
- Counting SEO crawl hits as human sessions in analytics.
Privacy and accuracy notes
Identification uses only the request user-agent. No visitor identity is involved. WebmasterID records each fetch as a bot event, separate from human analytics, and never attaches it to a profile.
Related pages
- SpyFu crawler
SpyFu is a competitive-research platform focused on SEO and paid-search (PPC) intelligence, letting marketers see competitors' keywords, ranking history, and ad data. Its crawler and data collection fetch search and web signals to build those datasets for subscribers. It is an SEO/PPC data tool, not a search engine, and operates to populate private research dashboards rather than a public index.
- Ubersuggest crawler
Ubersuggest is an SEO platform, associated with Neil Patel, offering keyword research, content ideas, site audits, and backlink analysis. Its crawler fetches web pages and link data to populate those features for users. It is an SEO data crawler rather than a search engine, building datasets for its dashboards instead of a public consumer index.
- Managing third-party SEO crawler load
Third-party SEO crawlers such as AhrefsBot and SemrushBot can generate significant request volume without contributing to search visibility. You can manage their load by targeting their tokens in robots.txt, using crawl-delay where the crawler supports it, and blocking those that bring no value to you.
- Bot intelligence
Deterministic categorisation of SEO crawlers and search bots.
Sources and verification notes
- SEranking — bot / crawler informationSEO platform with self-identifying crawler; exact token/IP ranges not exhaustively published.
- Mangools — about / toolsSEO toolset (KWFinder, LinkMiner) with crawler-based data collection.
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.