AddThis
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe AddThis bot crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools. These tools include features like social sharing buttons and content recommendation widgets. Operated by AddThis.
What is AddThis?
AddThis is a web crawler operated by AddThis. The AddThis bot crawls websites to gather and update content for its website marketing tools. These tools include features like social sharing buttons and content recommendation widgets.
Identification
AddThisHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- How much of your web traffic is bots? - General Discussion - Sympl
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Robots.txt as a Lever for AI Accountability
- Problems with web crawlers not respecting robots.txt file - SSL / TLS
Why it crawls your site
AddThis crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by AddThis as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow AddThis
Add a Disallow rule for AddThis in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block AddThis from crawling your entire site User-agent: AddThis Disallow: / # Allow AddThis full access User-agent: AddThis Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows AddThis. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to AddThis's documentation.
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