01 · Operator
Who operates Neevabot
02 · Behavior
What Neevabot does
Neevabot crawls public web pages for the neeva.com search index. It follows robots.txt Allow and Disallow rules and the Crawl-delay directive. If no Neevabot rules exist, it follows the rules for Googlebot. Its requests come from hosts under neevabot.com.
03 · Impact
Why Neevabot matters for your site
If you allow it
- Pages can appear in Neeva search results
- Respects robots.txt and Crawl-delay
If you block it
- Neeva's crawler page was last updated in May 2021 and current activity is unconfirmed
- Small search engine with little referral traffic
04 · Allow
How to allow Neevabot
robots.txt
User-agent: Neevabot
Allow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Neevabot")
Action: Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules
# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.WordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Neevabot
Allow: /nginx
# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "Neevabot") { return 403; }Apache
# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Neevabot [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]05 · Block
How to block Neevabot
Neevabot follows robots.txt, so one rule is enough. Use a server or CDN rule only to stop spoofed copies.
robots.txt
User-agent: Neevabot
Disallow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Neevabot")
Action: BlockWordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Neevabot
Disallow: /nginx
# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Neevabot") {
return 403;
}Apache
# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Neevabot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>06 · User agents
User agents we see for Neevabot
The user agent published by the operator:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Neevabot/1.0; +https://neeva.com/neevabot)07 · Verification
Is it really Neevabot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. A reverse DNS lookup of a real request resolves to neevabot.com, and that hostname resolves back to the same IP.
FAQ
Questions about Neevabot
What is Neevabot?
Neevabot is the web crawler for the Neeva search engine at neeva.com.
Does Neevabot respect robots.txt?
Yes. It follows Allow, Disallow and Crawl-delay rules, and falls back to Googlebot rules if none target Neevabot.
How can I verify Neevabot?
Check the user agent and run a reverse DNS lookup. Genuine requests resolve to hostnames under neevabot.com.
Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026