MRK-SEO-AuditBot

The crawler behind the free MRK SEO Audit tool. This page explains what it is, how to identify it, and how to allow it through a firewall so your audit is accurate.

What it does

MRK-SEO-AuditBot fetches a web page only when someone runs an SEO audit of that page using our tool. It is not a continuous, always-on crawler — it visits on demand, reads the HTML to score your SEO / GEO / AEO readiness, and (for a full-site audit) requests a small number of pages listed in your sitemap. It does not submit forms, log in, or collect personal data.

How to identify it

The bot sends this User-Agent on every request:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MRK-SEO-AuditBot/1.0; +https://mohibraiskhan.com/seo-audit-bot)

Requests come from the audit tool's server. If you run an audit and see a “Just a moment…” / security-check result, your firewall blocked the bot before it reached your real page — the steps below fix that.

How to allow it (for accurate results)

Cloudflare

Security → WAF → Custom rules → Create rule
Field User Agent · Operator contains · Value MRK-SEO-AuditBot
Action: Skip (or Allow) → Deploy

Other firewalls (Sucuri, Wordfence, modsecurity, host WAF)

Add MRK-SEO-AuditBot to the allow / whitelist list for user-agents, or
Temporarily whitelist while you run your audit, then remove it.

Prefer to block it? Add a Disallow for user-agent MRK-SEO-AuditBot in your robots.txt, or block that user-agent at your firewall.

Questions

Email hello@mohibraiskhan.com or contact us.

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