Semrush’s continued dishonesty, and potentially one fewer outlet to expose them

Is this why Search Engine Land refused to run our release about Semrush?

Because now, Semrush is their parent company, and they would have known that the deal was happening when they received the release.

We also now know that I was right about what was going on—and the biggest names in the search engine press uniformly missed it.
 
At the end of September, the main Semrush bot was blocked in robots.txt. On October 6, every listed Semrush bot was blocked. Here we are, October 18, and a reminder that what these big tech companies claim and what they do are entirely different things, especially when it comes to user privacy.

Semrush says we have to wait ‘up to one hour or 100 requests for SemrushBot to discover changes made to your robots.txt’, which is demonstrably untrue.

Nothing has changed since Google.
 
Cloudflare screenshot showing Semrush bots still hitting one of our websites, despite being disallowed
 

A company that makes a fake claim, inspiring hundreds (if not more) people to write fake news. And that’s just the ones who wrote disinformation about me. What about all the other keywords out there for which junk posts now crowd out legitimate information?


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