Google AdsBot
recommended: challengeGoogle AdsBot is special-case crawler that monitors websites where Google Ads are served.
What it does
Google AdsBot usually returns to a small set of pages rather than crawling an entire site. Visits may follow an hourly, daily, or weekly schedule, while websites its clients do not monitor may never encounter it.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
AdsBot-GoogleGoogle AdsBot
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Google AdsBot:
Allow full access
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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