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Amazon AdBot

Name: Amazon AdBot
Author: Amazon

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Amazon AdBot is a crawler used by Amazon's advertising services. It visits advertiser landing pages to ensure they are compliant with advertising policies. Operated by Amazon.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is Amazon AdBot?

Amazon AdBot is a web crawler operated by Amazon. Amazon AdBot is a crawler used by Amazon's advertising services. It visits advertiser landing pages to ensure they are compliant with advertising policies.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Amazon AdBot

Operator

Amazon

Why it crawls your site

Amazon AdBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Amazon as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Amazon AdBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AmazonAdBot 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 Amazon AdBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Amazon AdBot full access
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /