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BrightEdge Bot

Name: BrightEdge Bot
Author: BrightEdge

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Autopilot is an SEO marketing automation tool that includes features for internal linking and image optimization. We crawl customer sites so that we can determine the best links to use on the site and to find images that need to be optimized. Operated by BrightEdge.

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Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is BrightEdge Bot?

BrightEdge Bot is a web crawler operated by BrightEdge. Autopilot is an SEO marketing automation tool that includes features for internal linking and image optimization. We crawl customer sites so that we can determine the best links to use on the site and to find images that need to be optimized.

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

Identification

Bot name

BrightEdge Bot

Operator

BrightEdge

Why it crawls your site

BrightEdge Bot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by BrightEdge 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 BrightEdge Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for BrightEdge Crawler 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 BrightEdge Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: BrightEdge Crawler
Disallow: /

# Allow BrightEdge Bot full access
User-agent: BrightEdge Crawler
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows BrightEdge Crawler. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to BrightEdge's documentation.