BrightEdge Crawler

Last updated 20 hours ago.

What is BrightEdge Crawler?

About

BrightEdge Crawler is an SEO crawler operated by BrightEdge. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

Track BrightEdge Crawler Visiting Your Website

You can see when BrightEdge Crawler visits your website using the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Detail

Operator

Type

SEO Crawler

Discovers search engine optimization insights

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Insights

BrightEdge Crawler's Activity on Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

0%

of top websites are currently blocking BrightEdge Crawler in some way

Access Control

Should I Block BrightEdge Crawler?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`BrightEdge Crawler`	Should match instances of BrightEdge Crawler

You can block BrightEdge Crawler or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This should block BrightEdge Crawler

User-agent: BrightEdge Crawler
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt