SEOJuice-SearchBot
SEOJuice •
Web Crawler
What is SEOJuice-SearchBot?
SEOJuice says its crawler visits public pages to map links between them for marketing-intelligence data. It documents robots.txt support and the SEOJuice-SearchBot token. The string recorded on this site wraps that token in a browser-like prefix, unlike SEOJuice's published complete user-agent, so the observed requests must not be attributed to SEOJuice on the string alone.
User Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; SEOJuice-SearchBot/1.0; +https://seojuice.io/bot
How to Control SEOJuice-SearchBot
Block Completely
To prevent SEOJuice-SearchBot from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block SEOJuice-SearchBot
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /public/
Set Crawl Delay
To slow down the crawl rate (note: not all bots respect this directive):
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify SEOJuice-SearchBot
Verification Method:
The recorded full user-agent does not match SEOJuice's published example. Treat it as an unverified claim and ask the operator to confirm source addresses if attribution matters.
The recorded full user-agent does not match SEOJuice's published example. Treat it as an unverified claim and ask the operator to confirm source addresses if attribution matters.
Learn more in the official documentation.
Detection Patterns
Multiple ways to detect SEOJuice-SearchBot in your application:
Basic Pattern
/SEOJuice\-SearchBot/i
Strict Pattern
/^Mozilla\/5\.0 AppleWebKit\/537\.36 \(KHTML, like Gecko\); compatible; SEOJuice\-SearchBot\/1\.0; \+https\:\/\/seojuice\.io\/bot$/
Flexible Pattern
/SEOJuice\-SearchBot[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/i
Vendor Match
/.*SEOJuice.*SEOJuice\-SearchBot/i
Implementation Examples
// PHP Detection for SEOJuice-SearchBot
function detect_seojuice_searchbot() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/SEOJuice\-SearchBot/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('SEOJuice-SearchBot detected from IP: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
// Set cache headers
header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600');
header('X-Robots-Tag: noarchive');
// Optional: Serve cached version
if (file_exists('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html')) {
readfile('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for SEOJuice-SearchBot
import re
from flask import request, make_response
def detect_seojuice_searchbot():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'SEOJuice\-SearchBot'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False
# Django Middleware
class seojuice_searchbotMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for SEOJuice-SearchBot
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Middleware to detect SEOJuice-SearchBot
function detect_seojuice_searchbot(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /SEOJuice\-SearchBot/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('SEOJuice-SearchBot detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'SEOJuice-SearchBot';
}
next();
}
app.use(detect_seojuice_searchbot);
# Apache .htaccess rules for SEOJuice-SearchBot
# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SEOJuice\-SearchBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SEOJuice\-SearchBot [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "SEOJuice\-SearchBot" is_bot=1
# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /SEOJuice\-SearchBot/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for SEOJuice-SearchBot
# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_seojuice_searchbot {
default 0;
~*SEOJuice\-SearchBot 1;
}
server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_seojuice_searchbot) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_seojuice_searchbot) {
root /var/www/cached;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
try_files $uri @backend;
}
# Add headers for bot requests
location @backend {
if ($is_seojuice_searchbot) {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noarchive";
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Should You Block This Bot?
Recommendations based on your website type:
| Site Type | Recommendation | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Optional | Evaluate based on bandwidth usage vs. benefits |
| Blog/News | Allow | Increases content reach and discoverability |
| SaaS Application | Block | No benefit for application interfaces; preserve resources |
| Documentation | Selective | Allow for public docs, block for internal docs |
| Corporate Site | Limit | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&page=
Allow: /products/
Allow: /categories/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Publishing/Blog Configuration
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Allow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: SEOJuice-SearchBot
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
SEOJuice-SearchBot
Robots.txt Name
SEOJuice-SearchBot
Category
seo
Respects robots.txt
Yes
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