search.marginalia.nu

What is search.marginalia.nu?

About

search.marginalia.nu is a web crawler for Marginalia Search, a noncommercial search engine that focuses on indexing old websites, personal websites, and blogs that struggle with discoverability in the SEO-optimized web. You can see how often search.marginalia.nu visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Search engine crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including popularity, the rate at which its content is updated, and the website's overall trustworthiness. Websites with fresh, high-quality content tend to be crawled more frequently, while less active or less reputable sites may be visited less often.

Type

Search Engine Crawler
Indexes web content for search engine results

Detail

Operated By Marginalia
Last Updated 13 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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Country of Origin

Sweden
search.marginalia.nu normally visits from Sweden

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

Top Visited Website Categories

Reference
Internet and Telecom
Science
Health
Pets and Animals
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Robots.txt

Should I Block search.marginalia.nu?

Probably not. Search engine crawlers power search engines, which are a useful way for users to discover your website. In fact, blocking search engine crawlers could severely reduce your traffic.

How Do I Block search.marginalia.nu?

⚠️ 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 search.marginalia.nu 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 search.marginalia.nu
# robots.txt
# This should block search.marginalia.nu

User-agent: search.marginalia.nu
Disallow: /