Seogard-Bot

Our technical SEO crawler

Identification

User-AgentSeogard-Bot/1.0 (+https://seogard.io/bot)
IP address142.132.133.166

Seogard-Bot analyzes your pages to detect SEO regressions (missing metas, broken SSR, incorrect redirects). It respects robots.txt directives and never overloads your servers.

Whitelisting guides

If your firewall (WAF) blocks our crawler, allow our User-Agent or our IP. Pick your WAF below:

Cloudflare

Step 1 — Create a Custom WAF rule (required)

  1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard
  2. Select your domain
  3. Go to Security > WAF > Custom Rules
  4. Click Create rule
  5. Name: Allow Seogard Bot
  6. Click Edit expression and paste:(ip.src eq 142.132.133.166) or (http.user_agent contains "Seogard-Bot")
  7. Action: Skip
  8. Check all components:
    • All remaining custom rules
    • All rate limiting rules
    • All managed rules
    • All Super Bot Fight Mode Rules
  9. Place at: First
  10. Click Deploy

Important: use or (not and) between the IP and the User-Agent so the rule matches when either one is present.

Step 2 — Bot Fight Mode (Free plan only)

On Cloudflare's Free plan, the Skip rule cannot bypass Bot Fight Mode. If the crawl is still blocked after step 1:

  1. Go to Security > Bots
  2. Turn off Bot Fight Mode

Pro, Business and Enterprise plans: no need to turn off Bot Fight Mode. The Skip rule from step 1 bypasses it automatically.

Akamai
  1. Log in to Akamai Control Center
  2. Go to Security > IP/Geo Firewall
  3. Add 142.132.133.166 to the Allow list
  4. Save and deploy the configuration

Alternative: in Bot Manager, add Seogard-Bot to the list of allowed bots.

AWS WAF
  1. Open the AWS WAF console
  2. Create an IP Set containing 142.132.133.166/32
  3. Add an Allow rule in your Web ACL referencing that IP Set
  4. Place that rule before your blocking rules
Sucuri
  1. Log in to the Sucuri dashboard
  2. Go to Firewall > Access Control
  3. In Whitelist IP, add 142.132.133.166
  4. Save
Other firewall

Two ways to allow Seogard-Bot:

Method 1 — By IP (recommended)

Add 142.132.133.166 to your firewall's allow list.

Method 2 — By User-Agent

Create a rule that allows requests whose User-Agent header contains Seogard-Bot.

Self-hosted

If you host Seogard yourself, the crawler runs on your server. The IP address to whitelist is your machine's, not 142.132.133.166.

1
Find your server's public IPcurl -s ifconfig.me
2
Use that IP in the guides above

Replace 142.132.133.166 with the IP returned in step 1 in the WAF rules of your choice.

3
The User-Agent stays the same

Seogard-Bot/1.0 is identical on Cloud and self-hosted. You can also whitelist by User-Agent alone.

Need help?

If you need assistance configuring your firewall, reach out at [email protected]. We can walk you through it step by step.

Seogard is source-available software (BSL 1.1 license) published by SAVEPNP SAS. Code distributed under the terms of the BSL — all other rights reserved.

Our mission is to protect every indexed page from invisible SEO regressions — before Google finds them.
Goal: 10,000 monitored sites by 2028.

Need help? [email protected]

GitHub

Frequently asked questions

What exactly does Seogard monitor?

Seogard continuously monitors 71 SEO and GEO rules on every page: meta title and description, canonical, accidental noindex, status codes (404, 500, redirects), SSR/CSR regressions, hreflang, Open Graph, llms.txt, blocked AI citation crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot) and much more. Every regression triggers a real-time email alert, ranked by severity.

Is Seogard free?

The self-hosted version is free, source available (BSL 1.1 license), with no page limit. The Cloud version is usage-based, for teams that prefer not to run the infrastructure.

How is Seogard different from a classic crawler?

Seogard automatically and continuously compares the raw HTML (what Google indexes) with the JavaScript render (what you see), on every page. Broken SSR goes unnoticed in the browser — Seogard catches it before Google re-renders your pages.

How do alerts work?

Every page is crawled daily. As soon as a change is detected (modified meta, abnormal status code, broken SSR), an alert with the before/after diff is sent by email.

Links

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