SemrushBot-SWA

What is SemrushBot-SWA?

About

SemrushBot-SWA is a specialized crawler used by Semrush's SEO Writing Assistant tool to check if URLs are accessible and verify content availability for SEO analysis. You can see how often SemrushBot-SWA visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Semrush
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking SemrushBot-SWA
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Country of Origin

United States
SemrushBot-SWA normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Computers and Electronics
Real Estate
Online Communities
Law and Government
Home and Garden
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Robots.txt

Should I Block SemrushBot-SWA?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block SemrushBot-SWA?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block SemrushBot-SWA or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SemrushBot-SWA/0.1; +http://www.semrush.com/bot.html) 
# robots.txt
# This should block SemrushBot-SWA

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

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