AliyunSecBot
SafeUser-agent: AliyunSecBot
Category: Cloud Services
SEO impact if blocked: 0/10
Alibaba Cloud
1 crawler operated by Alibaba Cloud
https://www.alibabacloud.com/Who Alibaba Cloud is, for site owners
Alibaba Cloud operates 1 crawler in our directory, filed under Cloud Services. Its crawl behaviour is rated safe.
Blocking Alibaba Cloud carries an SEO impact score of 0/10. Blocking impact is rated: Varies - Evaluate before blocking.
Our recommendation for Alibaba Cloud: Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.
Alibaba Cloud at a glance
| Operator | Alibaba Cloud |
|---|---|
| Crawler in directory | 1 |
| Categories | Cloud Services |
| SEO impact if blocked | 0/10 |
| Crawl behaviour | 1 rated safe |
| Website | www.alibabacloud.com |
| Official crawler docs | Alibaba Cloud crawler documentation |
Crawler operated by Alibaba Cloud
What Alibaba Cloud's crawlers are for
Alibaba Cloud runs 1 crawler in our database. Grouped by the job each one does:
- a utility crawler:
AliyunSecBot
The highest-priority token is Tier 6. That makes Alibaba Cloud a lower-priority operator for most sites: worth a deliberate decision, but rarely the one that decides your visibility.
How site owners treat Alibaba Cloud
None of Alibaba Cloud's tokens were among the names tracked in our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000, which usually means few large sites write rules for them yet. Your own logs are the best evidence of how often they visit.
Writing one policy for Alibaba Cloud
A robots.txt file cannot say "Alibaba Cloud"; it can only name Alibaba Cloud's tokens, one group at a time. With a single token, one group is the whole policy.
# One token controls everything Alibaba Cloud fetches through it
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /- Decide per job, not per company. Training, search and user-triggered fetching have different trade-offs, even from the same operator.
- Name every token you mean. A token you leave out follows
User-agent: *. - Repeat shared rules. A named group ignores the
*group, so copy anyDisallowlines you still want it to obey. - Verify from outside. Run the crawlability checker for AI search after any change to see the result for each Alibaba Cloud token, including firewall refusals.
Test yourself: does User-agent: Alibaba Cloud block all of Alibaba Cloud's crawlers?
No. robots.txt matches crawler tokens, not company names. Use the token AliyunSecBot.
Test yourself: if you block one Alibaba Cloud token, are the others blocked too?
No. Each token is read separately. Blocking one leaves the rest following whatever group applies to them.
Each Alibaba Cloud crawler, explained
A one-paragraph brief for every Alibaba Cloud token in our database, covering what it does, how it treats robots.txt and how often large sites write rules for it:
- AliyunSecBot (
AliyunSecBot, Tier 6): a utility crawler that checks pages for an SEO, uptime or analytics service. Rated safe. AliyunSecBot's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the AliyunSecBot rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop. Not tracked in our robots.txt study.
Common mistakes with Alibaba Cloud's crawlers
The errors we see most often with Alibaba Cloud's crawlers in the files and firewalls we test:
- Treating Alibaba Cloud's crawlers as an AI or search crawler. Blocking it has little effect on visibility; decide based on load and what it does with your data.
- Relying on robots.txt alone when Alibaba Cloud's crawlers is rated caution or aggressive. Back the rule with a server-side block.
- Blocking Alibaba Cloud's crawlers by IP alone. Ranges change; match the token and verify with logs.
All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check Alibaba Cloud's crawlers from outside after every change.
What our own data shows about Alibaba Cloud
Everything below comes from the AI Crawler Check bot database and our two most recent robots.txt scans of the Tranco top 10,000, not from Alibaba Cloud's marketing. Alibaba Cloud has one token in our database, so the whole picture fits in one place.
AliyunSecBot in our records
We first recorded AliyunSecBot on March 17, 2026. Alibaba Cloud documents it on help.aliyun.com, and we recheck that page before each release. No file in our top-10,000 scans names AliyunSecBot, so any rule you write for it puts you ahead of almost every large site.
Among the 3 cloud services in our database, AliyunSecBot sits third by priority (Tier 6), alone in its tier. 3 of the 3 share its safe rating. Other operators with a crawler that checks pages for an SEO, uptime or analytics service: OAI-AdsBot (OpenAI, Tier 2), AdIdxBot (Microsoft, Tier 3), AdsBot-Google (Google, Tier 3), AdsBot-Google-Mobile (Google, Tier 3), Baiduspider-ads (Baidu, Tier 3). A policy for AliyunSecBot is usually a policy for these too.
A decision record for AliyunSecBot
Teams that review crawlers once a quarter keep one short entry per token, so anyone can see why a rule exists and when it was last checked. Filled in from our data, the AliyunSecBot entry reads:
- Operator and job: Alibaba Cloud; it checks pages for an SEO, uptime or analytics service.
- Priority and behaviour: Tier 6, rated safe, blocking impact not documented.
- Suggested starting point: Allow by default; revisit if it costs you bandwidth.
- Enforcement: AliyunSecBot's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the AliyunSecBot rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Allow: /Paste the line into the validator with one of your own URLs before it goes live. Revisit the AliyunSecBot entry once a quarter, or when Alibaba Cloud publishes a new token next to it.
Checking AliyunSecBot on your own site
Because Alibaba Cloud runs only AliyunSecBot in our records, one check covers the whole operator. Search your access logs for the string AliyunSecBot over the last 30 days, note how many requests it made and which paths it asked for, then compare that with what your robots.txt allows. Match the requests against what Alibaba Cloud publishes about the crawler, since that page is the only authority on its behaviour. A Tier 6 crawler rated safe rarely needs more than a quarterly look, and our log checker does the counting for you.
How top sites treat Alibaba Cloud's crawlers
From our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000 (5,583 valid files, fetched October 20, 2026):
None of the tokens for Alibaba Cloud's crawlers is tracked by name in our study. For scale, 20.1% of top-site files block at least one AI training crawler and 4.3% refuse every unnamed crawler with User-agent: * and Disallow: /, which would catch Alibaba Cloud's crawlers too.
More questions about Alibaba Cloud
- Will blocking Alibaba Cloud affect my Google rankings?
- Only if one of its tokens is a Google search crawler. None of Alibaba Cloud's tokens are Googlebot, so classic Google rankings are unaffected.
- How quickly does a robots.txt change take effect for Alibaba Cloud?
- Crawlers cache robots.txt, commonly for up to a day. Expect a change to apply within about 24 hours, and confirm it in your logs.
- Can I allow Alibaba Cloud on some sections and block it on others?
- Yes. Inside the group for
AliyunSecBot, addDisallowlines for the paths to keep private andAllowlines for exceptions. The longest matching rule wins. - Does blocking Alibaba Cloud delete content it already collected?
- No. robots.txt only controls future visits. For content already collected, check whether Alibaba Cloud offers a removal or opt-out process.
- Is a firewall block better than robots.txt for Alibaba Cloud?
- A firewall enforces the decision, while robots.txt asks politely. Many operators recommend robots.txt because blocking their IPs can stop them reading your rules at all. Use robots.txt first, and add a firewall rule only if requests continue.
A five-minute Alibaba Cloud review
- Confirm the token. Compare the user-agent in your logs with the tokens listed on this page. A close spelling is not the same crawler.
- Decide the outcome per crawler. Use the briefs above to choose allow, limit or block for each token.
- Write the group. Add or edit one
User-agentgroup per decision and repeat any shared rules inside it. - Publish and wait. Allow about a day for crawlers to fetch the new file.
- Confirm the result. Check your logs, then run the free AI crawler check to see the outcome from outside, including any firewall layer.
How to block or allow Alibaba Cloud in robots.txt
This rule covers the single crawler Alibaba Cloud operates. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Block Alibaba Cloud completely
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Disallow: /
Allow Alibaba Cloud explicitly
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
Allow: /
These Alibaba Cloud rules ask; they do not enforce. If a Alibaba Cloud token ignores them, block it at the server or CDN. Paths are case-sensitive, and each rule matches the token, not the full user-agent string.
Frequently asked questions about Alibaba Cloud
What crawler does Alibaba Cloud run?
Alibaba Cloud operates 1 crawler in our directory: AliyunSecBot (user-agent AliyunSecBot).
Should I block Alibaba Cloud?
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value. The SEO impact score for blocking is 0/10, where 10 means blocking costs you the most visibility.
How do I block Alibaba Cloud in robots.txt?
Add the following to robots.txt at your domain root: User-agent: AliyunSecBot then Disallow: /.
Does blocking Alibaba Cloud hurt my search rankings?
Blocking impact is rated: Varies - Evaluate before blocking. Google's own ranking crawler is Googlebot, which this operator does not run, so blocking Alibaba Cloud does not by itself remove you from Google's index. What it can change is whether AI assistants and analytics tools can read your pages.