Allow trusted crawlers. Control the rest.
Manage crawler access with allowlists and enforcement rules, so legitimate SEO traffic stays healthy while abusive automation is restricted before it hits your origin.
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Crawler problems you can’t ignore
Indexing needs protection, too
Too many requests can overload your platform. Too little control can hurt indexing quality. Trusted Accounts helps you keep both in balance.
Search & SEO bots with heavy footprints
Even legitimate crawlers can over-request. Keep their access within safe limits while preserving indexing.
Impersonation and spoofed identities
Control bots based on behavior and risk signals — not just user agent strings.
Unclear crawler impact
Without proper visibility, you can’t tell which crawlers consume resources or degrade performance.
Manual allowlists don’t scale
As new crawlers appear, static rules become outdated. Use management features to stay current.
How it works
Rules you can tune — outcomes you can see
Detect crawler behavior, then enforce your allowlist/denylist rules. You can protect capacity while preserving trusted crawler access.
- Detect crawler traffic
- Identify crawlers using behavioral and traffic patterns, aligned with what you care about (SEO + performance).
- Enforce rules per crawler
- Allow trusted crawlers and restrict others based on your allowlist/denylist configuration.
- Protect your infrastructure
- Stop or reduce abusive crawler requests before origin so your platform remains responsive.
- Measure outcomes in the admin-panel
- See what’s happening over time and tune rules using admin visibility and trends.
- Trusted crawler allowlists (keep indexing healthy).
- Restriction rules for suspicious or abusive crawlers.
- Review results and tune enforcement based on trends.
Key benefits
Keep SEO. Control load. Stay in control.
Trusted Accounts lets you manage crawler access while protecting infrastructure and preserving the integrity of indexing and analytics.
- SEO-safe allowlisting
- Whitelist trusted crawler traffic so legitimate indexing and analytics stay intact.
- Risk-based enforcement
- Decide based on behavior signals so spoofed clients don’t slip through with a fake identity.
- Configurable at your pace
- Tune rules in the admin-panel and iterate without redeploying your core stack.
- Infrastructure protection
- Reduce crawler load and protect capacity by restricting abusive request patterns.
- Privacy-first approach
- Designed to minimize invasive tracking while still enabling crawler detection and control.
Frequently asked questions
Learn how crawler access rules work and how to measure results in the admin-panel.
- Will crawler management hurt SEO?
- No — the goal is to allow trusted SEO crawlers while restricting abusive automation. You control rules via allowlists and visibility in the admin-panel.
- What’s the difference between allowlists and denylist rules?
- Allowlists ensure trusted crawlers keep access. Denylist/restriction rules reduce or block others based on risk signals and traffic behavior.
- How do we see which crawlers are causing issues?
- The admin-panel provides crawler views and trends so you can identify sources and adjust enforcement based on outcomes.
- How do we integrate with our stack?
- Use the protection integration approach: connect decisioning into the traffic path. Then configure crawler rules in the admin-panel.
Manage crawlers without guessing
Start for free and configure crawler rules in the admin-panel. Keep trusted indexing healthy while restricting abusive bots.