BacklinkMastery Bot Documentation

Resumen

BacklinkMastery-Bot is a legitimate web crawler operated by BacklinkMastery, a professional backlink monitoring service. Our bot helps SEO professionals and website owners monitor the status and quality of their backlinks across the web.

Bot Identification

User-Agent: BacklinkMastery-Bot/1.0 (+https://backlink-mastery.com/bot)

Our bot identifies itself clearly with a unique user-agent string that includes a link to this documentation page.

Service Purpose

BacklinkMastery-Bot serves the following benign purposes:

Verifying the existence and status of backlinks for our customers
Checking if backlinks are still active and properly formatted
Monitoring anchor text and link attributes
Helping website owners maintain their SEO strategy

Note: Our bot only checks specific URLs provided by our customers and does not perform:

Wholesale site crawling or scraping
Credential stuffing or security scanning
Data harvesting beyond backlink verification
Any malicious or harmful activities

Crawling Behavior

Behavior	Detalles
Respects robots.txt	Yes - Always checks and complies with robots.txt directives
Crawl delay	Minimum 2 seconds between requests to the same domain
Concurrent requests	Maximum 1 concurrent request per domain
Request methods	GET and HEAD only
JavaScript execution	No - We do not execute JavaScript
Response to rate limits	Respects 429 status codes and Retry-After headers

Detalles técnicos

Request Headers

Our bot sends standard HTTP headers including:

User-Agent: BacklinkMastery-Bot/1.0 (+https://backlink-mastery.com/bot)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

IP Addresses

Our bot operates from fixed IP addresses. For the current list of IP addresses, please contact us at the email below.

Opt-Out Instructions

Website owners can exclude BacklinkMastery-Bot using standard robots.txt directives:

User-agent: BacklinkMastery-Bot
Disallow: /

To exclude specific paths only:

User-agent: BacklinkMastery-Bot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/

Verificación

To verify that a request is genuinely from BacklinkMastery-Bot:

Check that the User-Agent matches our official string
Verify the request originates from our published IP addresses
Contact us if you need to confirm specific traffic

Contact Information

For technical inquiries: bot@backlink-mastery.com

For opt-out requests: optout@backlink-mastery.com

General support: support@backlink-mastery.com

Website: https://backlink-mastery.com

Response time: Within 24-48 hours on business days