Directory/Categories/Security/Google Site Verification

Google Site Verification

Name: Google Site Verification
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Verification is the process of proving that you own the property that you claim to own. Search Console needs to verify ownership because verified owners have access to sensitive Google Search data for a site, and can affect a site's presence and behavior on Google Search and other Google properties. A verified owner can grant full or view access to other people. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Security

What is Google Site Verification?

Google Site Verification is a web crawler operated by Google. Verification is the process of proving that you own the property that you claim to own. Search Console needs to verify ownership because verified owners have access to sensitive Google Search data for a site, and can affect a site's presence and behavior on Google Search and other Google properties. A verified owner can grant full or view access to other people.

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

Identification

Bot name

Google Site Verification

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Site Verification 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 Site Verification 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 311 ranges

Block or allow Google Site Verification

Block it

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

# Allow Google Site Verification full access
User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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