Directory/Categories/SEO/DealerHandshakeBot

DealerHandshakeBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

DealerHandshakeBot reads a car dealership's website the way an AI assistant would and reports back what such an assistant can and cannot see. A scan is started by a person entering a domain in our free tool, and fetches up to 23 pages: the homepage, robots.txt, sitemaps, one inventory listing page and three vehicle detail pages. It honors robots.txt and Crawl-delay, retains no page content, and signs every request with HTTP Message Signatures (Web Bot Auth).

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

Identification

Bot name

DealerHandshakeBot

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Block or allow DealerHandshakeBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for DealerHandshakeBot 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 DealerHandshakeBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: DealerHandshakeBot
Disallow: /

# Allow DealerHandshakeBot full access
User-agent: DealerHandshakeBot
Allow: /