BrightEdge Crawler

What is BrightEdge Crawler?

About

BrightEdge Crawler powers the Autopilot SEO automation tool, crawling customer websites to analyze internal linking opportunities and identify images needing optimization for improved search engine performance. You can see how often BrightEdge Crawler visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

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.

Type

SEO Crawler
Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By BrightEdge
Last Updated 21 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
BrightEdge Crawler normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Shopping
Food and Drink
Computers and Electronics
Real Estate
Law and Government
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Robots.txt

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.

How Do I Block BrightEdge Crawler?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block BrightEdge Crawler 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 BrightEdge Crawler/1.0 (crawler@brightedge.com)
# robots.txt
# This should block BrightEdge Crawler

User-agent: BrightEdge Crawler
Disallow: /

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