linkfluence

What is linkfluence?

About

linkfluence is an intelligence gatherer operated by Meltwater. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often linkfluence 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.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By Meltwater
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking linkfluence
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Country of Origin

Canada
linkfluence normally visits from Canada

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

Top Visited Website Categories

Hobbies and Leisure
Travel and Transportation
Arts and Entertainment
Science
Jobs and Education
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Robots.txt

Should I Block linkfluence?

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 linkfluence?

⚠️ 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 linkfluence 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; YaK/1.0; http://linkfluence.com/; bot@linkfluence.com)
# robots.txt
# This should block linkfluence

User-agent: linkfluence
Disallow: /