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 17 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

Health
Science
Internet and Telecom
Books and Literature
Reference
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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?

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.

How Do I Block All Search Engine Crawlers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new search engine crawlers automatically.
User Agent String search.marginalia.nu
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: search.marginalia.nu # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/search-marginalia-nu
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.