MJ12bot

Operated by Majestic. Last seen today.

What is MJ12bot?

About

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.

Detail

Website

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

Other Websites

of top websites are currently blocking MJ12bot in some way

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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

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

You can block MJ12bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This blocks MJ12bot

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can generate your robots.txt automatically using the free API or Wordpress plugin.

Get the Robots.txt