Goodbay Moz.īacklink scrappers have no value for me. I complete his list with: Goodbye Ahrefs. So: another new plugin is born, browser_block. com version of the site I read “MegaIndex is a powerful and versatile competitive intelligence suite for online marketing, from SEO and PPC to social media and advertising research.” Again, this is a use of my resources (bandwidth, web server CPU) for some commercial enterprise that cannot benefit me. So let me get this, you crawl sites to sell people lists of who links to them? Why should I waste my bandwidth giving you pages?īut clearly it is Megaindex that is abusive. I don’t know everything MJ12bot does, but I do know one thing it does is power paid access to “incoming” links reports via “Majestic Site Explorer”: “Access raw exports from £79.99 a month”. “Eli the Bearded” comes to the same conclusion, block SEO bots: One article I randomly found while searching info about UA strings. My conclusion? Block them!Īm I the only one with such an opinion? Definitely no. All without bringing any direct value to the tool itself. They consume bandwidth, server’s processing time and the most important of all – API limits. The site is policed by Google Analytics.ĭuring analyzed period, backlink monitors did 75% of all bot traffic. Tools process data from Google so Google don’t need to index what already has.Google’s bot is pretty adjust after all those years of experience.I’m sure you’ve noticed a surprisingly low number of Google visits. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible coccocbot-web/1.0 +) Coccoc (2 hits) – some cute little Vietnamese SE, potential traffic source.Yandex (24 hits) – SE, potential traffic source.Mozilla/5.0 (Linux Android 6.0.1 Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.92 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible Googlebot/2.1 +) Mozilla/5.0 (Linux Android 6.0.1 Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible Googlebot/2.1 +) Google (only 67 hits) – Big Brother, potential traffic source.Seznam (85 hits) – SE, potential traffic source.Bingbot (150 hits) – SE from Mrkvosoft □, potential traffic source.Moz (477 hits) – backlink scrapper, no value.Majestic (647 hits) – backlink scrapper, no value.Mozilla/5.0 (compatible SemrushBot/6~bl +) Semrush (907 hits) – backlink scrapper, no value.Mozilla/5.0 (Linux Android 7.0 ) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible AspiegelBot) Aspiegel (1062 hits) – voracious search engine (SE) bot from Huawei, potential traffic source.I like the tool itself, but on this level bot’s activity has no direct value for me. Ahrefs (1965 hits) – botsbreeder‘s backlink scraper based in Singapore.From 00:00:00 to 00:00:00 bots I was able to identify were: To answer the questions I decided to analyze access log of one tool I webmaster. More about this meta tag here.Which bots consume my server’s resources the most? What’s the situation with bots at the beginning of 2020? And this tag should strictly be placed under your HEAD tag of the page. In order for this to be applied to your entire site, You will have to add this meta tag for all of your pages. The ugly:įrom the robots documentation for meta tags, You can use the following meta tag on all your pages on your site to let the Bots know that these pages are not supposed to be indexed. Which should yield the exact same results as the above two. I don't care way:ĭo not create a /robots.txt altogether. Which will default to allow all for all type of Bots. User-agent: *Ĭreate a /robots.txt file with no content in it. Specify a global matcher with a disallow segment as mentioned by So your /robots.txt looks like this. But, here is my two cents for the sake of completeness.Īs per the official documentation, there are four ways, you can allow complete access for robots to access your site. I understand that this is fairly old question and has some pretty good answers.
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