Yahoo Ad Monitoring
recommended: challenge
Operated by Yahoo
seo crawler
Yahoo Ad Monitor monitors the contents of webpages where Yahoo! ads are served.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Yahoo Ad monitoring
Example user-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Ad monitoring; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-ad-monitoring-SLN24857.html)robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Yahoo Ad Monitoring:
Allow full access
User-agent: Yahoo Ad monitoring
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Yahoo Ad monitoring
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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References
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