SMTnetPMBot

What is SMTnetPMBot?

About

SMTnetPMBot crawls partner company websites to index and include their content in SMTnet's on-site search engine for electronics manufacturing industry resources. You can see how often SMTnetPMBot 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	SMTnet
Last Updated	17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking SMTnetPMBot

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Country of Origin

Unknown

SMTnetPMBot has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Search Engine Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block SMTnetPMBot?

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 SMTnetPMBot?

⚠️ 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 SMTnetPMBot 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 SMTnetPMBot

User-agent: SMTnetPMBot
Disallow: /