BrightEdge Bot

What is BrightEdge Bot?

About

BrightEdge Bot is an intelligence gatherer operated by BrightEdge. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often BrightEdge Bot 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.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By BrightEdge
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking BrightEdge Bot
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Country of Origin

Unknown
BrightEdge Bot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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Robots.txt

Should I Block BrightEdge Bot?

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 BrightEdge Bot?

You can block BrightEdge Bot 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.

How Do I Block All Intelligence Gatherers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new intelligence gatherers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: BrightEdge Bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/brightedge-bot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.