Google Publisher Center
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFetches and processes feeds that publishers explicitly supplied for use in Google News landing pages. Operated by Google.
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.
Identification
GoogleProducerWhy 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.
Block or allow Google Publisher Center
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: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows GoogleProducer. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.
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