SplitSignalBot

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: Yes

Semrush crawler used for SplitSignal SEO A/B testing workflows.

Crawls sites for SplitSignal SEO A/B testing workflows.

Key facts

Operator
Semrush
Family
Semrush
Purpose
Site Owner Fetch
User-Agent
SplitSignalBot
Should you block it?
Depends
Verified
Yes
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Identity type
Unknown
Confidence
High
Last checked
2026-04-03

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent
SplitSignalBot
robots.txt token
SplitSignalBot
HTTP user-agent
SplitSignalBot

Ownership

Operator
Semrush
Family
Semrush
Type
Scraper
Purpose
Site Owner Fetch

Verification and trust

Source type
Unknown
Confidence
High
Last checked
2026-04-03
Verification
Identify the documented user-agent; Semrush says not to block by IP because it does not use consecutive IP blocks.
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

Blocking and detection

Official Semrush bot documentation lists SplitSignalBot separately in robots.txt examples.

Robots

User-agent: SplitSignalBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "SplitSignalBot")
Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SplitSignalBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx

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

Notes

Semrush documents SplitSignalBot as the crawler to block when you want to stop Semrush’s SplitSignal tool from crawling your site for SEO A/B tests.

Evidence and source

  • Identify the documented user-agent; Semrush says not to block by IP because it does not use consecutive IP blocks.
  • Official Semrush bot documentation lists SplitSignalBot separately in robots.txt examples.
  • Crawls sites for SplitSignal SEO A/B testing workflows.
  • User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.