Yahoo Link Preview
What is Yahoo Link Preview?
About
Yahoo Link Preview bot fetches metadata and preview data from URLs shared on Yahoo platforms and services. Supports Yahoo's social features, news aggregation, and content discovery across their ecosystem of web properties. You can see how often Yahoo Link Preview visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
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Operated By | Yahoo |
Last Updated | 1 day ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Yahoo Link Preview?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block Yahoo Link Preview?
You can block Yahoo Link Preview 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 | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Link Preview; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/yahoo-link-preview-SLN23615.html) maild/1588969652-10 |
# robots.txt
# This should block Yahoo Link Preview
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
Disallow: /