Name of blacklisted user agent

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#1

If in the Web Crawler User Agents tab
I have the name of the bot, that’s exactly what I have to enter in the options to make sure that the bot is blocked or another name ?

for example
MBCrawler/1.0 (https://monitorbacklinks.com/robot)

then what should be input here

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MBCrawler/1.0 or a whole line or maybe any word containing the name of that bot ?

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2Q
And by the way, are you blocking these bots or not because I read different opinions? Maybe there’s no point in worrying about any bot.

But if so, why is Ahrefs blocked by default, etc . What is the purpose of this?

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#2

I think monitorbacklinks would be best as it is the longest unique string.

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#3

Hello Sylwia, and thank you for adding this post.

  1. Do you know what the SEO implications of blocking bots from google may be?
  2. Did you get a response to your second question:

I am in the process of blocking bots to keep my pageviews under control and within by subscription plan.

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