Google AdsBot
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Operated by Google
seo crawler
Google AdsBot is special-case crawler that monitors websites where Google Ads are served.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
AdsBot-Google
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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