# Bot

Software that performs automated tasks on the internet; there are types such as search engine crawlers, AI assistants, social media unfurl bots, and spam bots.

**Bot (Robot)** is the general name for software programs that perform automated tasks on the internet. In the context of SEO, the term bot is most often used synonymously with [crawler](/content/sozluk/crawler/index.html), but the bot ecosystem is much broader.

Bot categories relevant to SEO:

- **Search engine bots:** Googlebot, Bingbot, YandexBot. They crawl pages to index them.
- **AI bots:** GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended. They crawl for AI training data and LLM responses.
- **Social media bots:** FacebookExternalHit, Twitterbot, LinkedInBot. They crawl for share previews (unfurl).
- **SEO tool bots:** AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, MJ12bot. They crawl for Backlink and ranking analysis.
- **Spam and malicious bots:** Content scraping, brute-force logins, form spam.

In modern SEO, how AI bots should be handled is a strategic decision. If you want to participate in AI training, access is left open; if you do not want your content copied, it is blocked with [robots.txt](/content/sozluk/robots-txt/index.html).

**Tip:** Analyze server logs to see which bots visit your site and how often. Excessive spam bot traffic can consume your server resources.