How to block OpenLinkprofiler and SEOprofiler bots

OpenLinkprofiler is an excellent free tool that shows you the backlinks of any website. Just pop the url in the searchbox and see what they have instore for you. You should note the link alert feature on the leftbar. A very handy feature to get alerts on new backlinks going to your website.

By doing that, you’re basically moving deeper into their funnel. Their paid product is a full blown SEO toolset called SEOprofiler. Check it out yourself!

OK enough about them lets get to the meat of this post. A lot of webmasters block bots from Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, etc. and this should be another one they should block too.

You can either do it via .htaccess or your WordPress plugin. Here’s the user agent of their bot.

# Open Link Profiler
#	Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+spbot/4.4.2;++http://OpenLinkProfiler.org/bot+)
#	http://OpenLinkProfiler.org/bot
User-agent: spbot
Disallow: /