MJ12bot

Last updated 20 hours ago.

MJ12bot is an SEO crawler operated by Majestic. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

You can set up agent analytics to see when MJ12bot visits your website.

Detail

Operator	Majestic
Documentation	http://mj12bot.com/

Type

SEO Crawler

Discovers search engine optimization insights

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.

Insights

MJ12bot Visiting Your Website

Half of your traffic probably comes from artificial agents, and there are more of them every day. Track their activity with the API or WordPress plugin.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Other Websites

5% of top websites are blocking MJ12bot

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Access Control

Should I Block MJ12bot?

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.

Using Robots.txt

You can block MJ12bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent Token	Description
`MJ12bot`	Should match instances of MJ12bot

# robots.txt
# This should block MJ12bot

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can use the API or Wordpress plugin to keep your robots.txt updated with the latest known AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt