Echobot Bot
What is Echobot Bot?
About
Echobot Bot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Echobox. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Echobot 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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Detail
| Operated By | Echobox |
| Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
Insights
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers
Robots.txt
Should I Block Echobot 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 Echobot Bot?
You can block Echobot 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.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Echobot Bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/echobot-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.