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Google-BusinessLinkVerification

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

To ensure business information on Google is accurate and trustworthy, we verify the links you provide Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Security

What is Google-BusinessLinkVerification?

Google-BusinessLinkVerification is a web crawler operated by Google. To ensure business information on Google is accurate and trustworthy, we verify the links you provide

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

Identification

Bot name

Google-BusinessLinkVerification

Operator

Google

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

Not stated

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

Why it crawls your site

Google-BusinessLinkVerification crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Google as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google-BusinessLinkVerification 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.

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Block or allow Google-BusinessLinkVerification

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Google-BusinessLinkVerifi 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-BusinessLinkVerification from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Google-BusinessLinkVerifi
Disallow: /

# Allow Google-BusinessLinkVerification full access
User-agent: Google-BusinessLinkVerifi
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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