Fake Googlebot or Bingbot traffic

Warning severity, in the logs tab

Why it matters

Requests claiming to be Googlebot or Bingbot came from IP addresses outside the ranges Google and Bing publish. Scrapers use this trick to bypass bot rules, and they distort crawl statistics.

How to fix it

Verify crawler IPs at the server or CDN (reverse DNS or the published ranges) before granting bot allowances, and rate-limit the impostors.

How Crawlune finds it

Crawlune flags Fake Googlebot or Bingbot traffic automatically on every crawl and lists the affected URLs under the logs tab, where you can filter, inspect each page and export the list to CSV. The free version crawls up to 550 URLs with every check enabled.