Google AdsBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTGoogle AdsBot is special-case crawler that monitors websites where Google Ads are served. Operated by Google.
What is Google AdsBot?
Google AdsBot is a web crawler operated by Google. Google AdsBot is special-case crawler that monitors websites where Google Ads are served.
Identification
AdsBot-GoogleWhy it crawls your site
Google AdsBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Google as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from Google AdsBot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow Google AdsBot
Add a Disallow rule for AdsBot-Google 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 Google AdsBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: AdsBot-Google Disallow: / # Allow Google AdsBot full access User-agent: AdsBot-Google Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows AdsBot-Google. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.
Traffic & trends
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Google.
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Data sources
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