Official crawler identity
CitoveraBot
CitoveraBot is the official web crawler used by Citovera for transparent technical SEO analysis and website intelligence.
Citovera builds SEO and GEO intelligence workflows for teams that need evidence before content work starts. The crawler identity page explains how our crawler identifies itself, what it checks and how site owners can control access.
Transparency
What is CitoveraBot?
CitoveraBot is the official crawler identity used by Citovera. It is prepared for technical SEO analysis, website intelligence and transparent log attribution. It is not a hidden browser, not Googlebot and not analytics traffic.
- Official bot name: CitoveraBot
- Operated for Citovera SEO and GEO intelligence workflows
- Built to be visible in access logs and security tools
What CitoveraBot checks
CitoveraBot is prepared to collect technical signals needed for search-quality analysis. It does not execute JavaScript and it does not send pageview analytics.
Canonical URLs and duplicate signals
Meta robots directives
Sitemap discovery and URL inventory
Internal link structure and anchor context
Basic content and metadata signals for SEO review
Robots.txt and crawl-delay
CitoveraBot is designed to respect robots.txt and Crawl-delay when provided. Crawl budgets and per-host delays are part of the safety rules before any production crawling workflow is activated.
How to block CitoveraBot
To block CitoveraBot for a site, add this rule to your robots.txt:
User-agent: CitoveraBot
Disallow: /
Blocking is honored at the site level. If something still looks wrong, send us a domain, UTC timestamp and log excerpt.
Dedicated crawler hostnames
Dedicated crawler hostnames and reverse DNS are being prepared so that crawler traffic can be attributed cleanly. Do not treat reverse DNS as verified until your logs show it for a specific request.
crawl-01.crawler.citovera.comcrawl-02.crawler.citovera.comcrawl-03.crawler.citovera.comcrawl-04.crawler.citovera.comcrawl-05.crawler.citovera.comcrawl-06.crawler.citovera.com
Support
Contact
If you believe CitoveraBot is accessing your site incorrectly, contact hello@citovera.com with your domain, UTC timestamp and relevant log excerpt.
- hello@citovera.com
- Please include
- Domain, UTC timestamp, relevant log excerpt and what should be changed.