MBCrawler

seo MBCrawler

Monitor Backlinks web crawler bot

About this crawler

MBCrawler is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern MBCrawler in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block MBCrawler traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.46%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: MBCrawler
2026-05-012026-06-040.69%

Technical details

Name
MBCrawler
Pattern
MBCrawler
Tags
seo
Reference
https://www.seoptimer.com/monitor-backlinks/
Added
2019/03/02
rDNS suffixes
.monitorbacklinks.com
Instances
1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely MBCrawler with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.

Sample User-Agent strings

MBCrawler/1.0 (https://monitorbacklinks.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow MBCrawler:

User-agent: MBCrawler Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MBCrawler [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "MBCrawler") { return 403; }
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