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SeznamBot

Bohemicus indexator

What is SeznamBot?

The crawler for Seznam, the Czech search engine. It is operated by Seznam.cz and identifies itself as SeznamBot.

Temperament: loyal. Comes from a small country with a large search engine. Very proud of both.

Operator
Seznam.cz
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
Not yet
Last seen
Not yet
Visits today
0
This week
0
All time
0
Caught in the trap
Never
How to block SeznamBot ↓
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SeznamBot/4.0; +https://o-seznam.cz/napoveda/vyhledavani/en/seznambot-crawler/)

To check a visitor really is SeznamBot, run a reverse DNS lookup on its IP address and confirm the hostname ends in .seznam.cz. Then run a forward lookup on that hostname and check it returns the same IP. Anything that fails is an impostor; the zoo checks every visit this way and files the failures in the Trap Room. Read Seznam.cz's documentation.

§ II.

How to block SeznamBot

Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from SeznamBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block SeznamBot from the whole site
User-agent: SeznamBot
Disallow: /

Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:

# Let it in, but keep it out of one room
User-agent: SeznamBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 1 / day
3 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h
robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Requests that use SeznamBot's name but fail Seznam.cz's network check are filed separately, as impostors. These are the visits that passed, or that could not be checked at the time:

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Questions site owners ask

Does SeznamBot respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking SeznamBot hurt my search rankings?

Yes, for Seznam.cz's search engine. Blocked pages can drop out of its results. Other search engines are unaffected.

How often does SeznamBot visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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