Allow Brass-SEO to Access Your Site

If our page analyzer can't reach your site, your firewall may be blocking it. Follow the guide for your provider below.

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Why Am I Seeing This?
What You Need
Provider Instructions
Need Help? Use This AI Prompt
Not Sure Which Firewall You Have?

Why Am I Seeing This?

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and bot protection services can block automated requests—including from tools you've authorized. When this happens, our page-level features (Page Audit, content analysis) can't fetch your pages.

Your GSC and GA4 data always works regardless. Only features that need to directly access your site's HTML are affected.

Brass-SEO only crawls sites belonging to our customers. You authorized us when you connected your site—we just need your firewall to know that too.

What You Need

When creating a firewall rule, use these details to identify our bot:

Bot Name

Brass-SEO

User-Agent String

Brass-SEO/1.0 (+https://brass-seo.com/bot)

For full bot details, see About Our Bot.

Provider Instructions

Find your firewall provider below and follow the link to their official documentation.

Vercel Firewall

Create a custom WAF rule: match User-Agent contains "Brass-SEO", set action to Allow.

Vercel Custom Rules

Cloudflare

Create a WAF custom rule: match User-Agent contains "Brass-SEO", set action to Skip.

Cloudflare WAF Custom Rules

AWS WAF

Add a User-Agent exception to your Bot Control rules to allow requests from Brass-SEO.

AWS WAF Bot Control UA Exception

Azure Front Door

Create a custom WAF rule matching the User-Agent header containing "Brass-SEO".

Azure Front Door Custom Rules

Sucuri

Add our IP addresses to your whitelist. Sucuri uses IP-based allowlisting rather than User-Agent rules.

Sucuri Whitelist IP

Wordfence (WordPress)

Add our IP addresses to your whitelist. Wordfence doesn't support User-Agent-based allowlisting.

Wordfence Firewall Options

Need Help? Use This AI Prompt

If you're not sure how to configure your firewall, copy the prompt below and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant for step-by-step instructions.

I need to allow a specific SEO bot through my website's firewall. Bot details: - Name: Brass-SEO - User-Agent: Brass-SEO/1.0 (+https://brass-seo.com/bot) - Purpose: SEO analysis tool that I've authorized to crawl my site - More info: https://brass-seo.com/bot My website uses [REPLACE WITH YOUR FIREWALL/HOST - e.g., Cloudflare, Vercel, Sucuri, Wordfence, AWS WAF, Azure Front Door]. Please look up the latest documentation for my firewall provider and give me step-by-step instructions to create a rule that allows requests from this bot (matching the User-Agent string above) to bypass bot protection and challenge pages. Walk me through one step at a time. After each step, wait for me to confirm before moving on — I may have questions or see something different on my screen. --- Prompt by Brass-SEO (brass-seo.com) ---

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Not Sure Which Firewall You Have?

Many hosting platforms include built-in firewalls. If your site is hosted on Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or AWS, you may already have a WAF active without having set one up explicitly.

Check your hosting dashboard for sections labeled "Firewall", "WAF", or "Security". If you still can't find it, your hosting provider's support team can tell you what's in place.

You can also use the AI prompt above and describe your hosting setup—the AI can help you figure out which firewall you have.