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Google Publisher Center

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Fetches and processes feeds that publishers explicitly supplied for use in Google News landing pages. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Google Publisher Center?

Google Publisher Center is a web crawler operated by Google. Fetches and processes feeds that publishers explicitly supplied for use in Google News landing pages.

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

Identification

Bot name

Google Publisher Center

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Google Publisher Center crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Google as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Publisher Center 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.

Showing 24 of 317 ranges

Block or allow Google Publisher Center

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for GoogleProducer 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 Publisher Center from crawling your entire site
User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Publisher Center full access
User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /