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DataForSEO Site Auditor

DataForSEO is using RSiteAuditor to scan websites for critical on-site SEO errors and provides aggregated data in a structured form to its customer through a RESTful API.
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What is DataForSEO Site Auditor?

DataForSEO Site Auditor is DataForSEO's SEO crawler. DataForSEO is using RSiteAuditor to scan websites for critical on-site SEO errors and provides aggregated data in a structured form to its customer through a RESTful API.

DataForSEO Site Auditor is an operational bot rather than an AI crawler, so it does not directly affect whether you appear in AI answers. It still shows up in your logs, and bots like it help keep your site healthy and crawlable, which indirectly supports both SEO and AI visibility.

Like any automated client, DataForSEO Site Auditor consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle DataForSEO Site Auditor

Whether to allow DataForSEO Site Auditor depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

To control DataForSEO Site Auditor, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: RSiteAuditor
Disallow: /

DataForSEO does not publish a robots.txt commitment for DataForSEO Site Auditor, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • A site owner spots DataForSEO Site Auditor in access logs and confirms it against the operator's documented user agent.
  • An operations team allows DataForSEO Site Auditor so the SEO reporting it powers stays accurate.

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DataForSEO Site Auditor is operated by DataForSEO. It functions as DataForSEO's SEO crawler.

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