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Why is MeirraBot blocked?

MeirraBot is our SEO crawler that analyses your website for technical issues, content quality, and search engine compliance. Some firewalls and CDNs block automated requests by default. If MeirraBot is blocked, we cannot perform SEO analysis on your website. To fix this, you need to whitelist our crawler by allowing our IP addresses or User-Agent string in your firewall settings. Our User-Agent: MeirraBot/1.0 (+https://meirra.com/bot) Our Crawler IPs: - 107.173.130.79 - 107.172.58.185

Cloudflare

If your site uses Cloudflare: 1. Log in to your Cloudflare dashboard 2. Select your domain 3. Go to Security > WAF > Tools 4. Under IP Access Rules, click 'Add' 5. Enter 107.173.130.79 and select 'Allow' 6. Repeat for 107.172.58.185 Alternatively, you can create a WAF Custom Rule: 1. Go to Security > WAF > Custom rules 2. Create a new rule 3. Set field to 'User Agent' contains 'MeirraBot' 4. Set action to 'Allow' 5. Deploy the rule

Vercel

If your site uses Vercel: 1. Log in to your Vercel dashboard 2. Go to your project Settings 3. Navigate to the Firewall section 4. Add a rule to allow requests where User-Agent contains 'MeirraBot' 5. Or add our crawler IPs (107.173.130.79 and 107.172.58.185) to the allow list 6. Save your changes

Other Firewalls (AWS WAF, Sucuri, Akamai, nginx, Apache)

For other firewall providers: AWS WAF: 1. Open the AWS WAF console 2. Select your Web ACL 3. Create an IP Set with our IPs: 107.173.130.79 and 107.172.58.185 4. Add a rule to allow traffic from this IP Set Sucuri: 1. Log in to your Sucuri dashboard 2. Go to Firewall > Settings > IP Allowlist 3. Add each of our crawler IPs nginx: Add to your server config: if ($http_user_agent ~* 'MeirraBot') { set $allow_bot 1; } Apache: Add to .htaccess: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent MeirraBot allow_bot Allow from env=allow_bot

Crawler IP Addresses

All MeirraBot requests originate from the following IP addresses. You can add these to your firewall allowlist: - 107.173.130.79 (Primary crawler) - 107.172.58.185 (Rendering service) These IPs are also listed on our bot information page at meirra.com/bot. You can verify whether an IP belongs to MeirraBot using our verification endpoint: GET https://meirra.com/api/bot/verify?ip=107.173.130.79

Verify the Fix

After whitelisting MeirraBot: 1. Go to your SEO Dashboard 2. Click the 'Retry Connection' button on the warning banner 3. If the connection test succeeds, the banner will disappear 4. You can then run a new crawl to start your SEO analysis If you continue to experience issues after whitelisting, please contact us at support@meirra.com.

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