MgidBot

What is MgidBot?

About

MgidBot is MGID's web crawler that analyzes website content to detect context categories and topics for targeted native advertising recommendations and content discovery. You can see how often MgidBot 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 MGID
Last Updated 3 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Unknown
MgidBot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block MgidBot?

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 MgidBot?

⚠️ 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 MgidBot 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block MgidBot

User-agent: MgidBot
Disallow: /