AdIdxBot
What is AdIdxBot?
About
AdIdxBot is Microsoft's Bing Ads crawler that monitors ads and follows ad destination websites for quality control to ensure advertising standards and policy compliance. You can see how often AdIdxBot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.
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Detail
Operated By | Microsoft |
Last Updated | 5 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block AdIdxBot?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
How Do I Block AdIdxBot?
You can block AdIdxBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
User Agent String | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) |
# robots.txt
# This should block AdIdxBot
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Disallow: /