Google-Site-Verification

What is Google-Site-Verification?

About

Google-Site-Verification is a verification service that proves website ownership for Google Search Console access by checking verification tokens like HTML tags or files on websites. You can see how often Google-Site-Verification visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 28 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google-Site-Verification
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Country of Origin

United States
Google-Site-Verification normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Travel and Transportation
Business and Industrial
Arts and Entertainment
Hobbies and Leisure
Books and Literature
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google-Site-Verification?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Google-Site-Verification?

⚠️ 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.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Google-Site-Verification 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 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Google-Site-Verification

User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
Disallow: /

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