James BOT

What is James BOT?

About

James BOT is cognitiveSEO's web crawler that analyzes website links, content, and SEO factors. It crawls websites to provide comprehensive SEO audits, backlink analysis, and site performance data for digital marketing optimization and competitor research. You can see how often James BOT 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 cognitive SEO Internet Marketing Tools.
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking James BOT
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Country of Origin

United States
James BOT normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block James BOT?

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 James BOT?

⚠️ 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 James 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.

User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6 - James BOT - WebCrawler http://cognitiveseo.com/bot.html 
# robots.txt
# This should block James BOT

User-agent: James BOT
Disallow: /

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