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.
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Operated By | BrightEdge |
Last Updated | 14 hours ago |
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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.
# robots.txt
# This should block BrightEdge Bot
User-agent: BrightEdge Bot
Disallow: /