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.
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Last Updated | 14 minutes ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Top Visited Website Categories
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?
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: /