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Google StoreBot

Name: Google StoreBot
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

The Google StoreBot is a search-engine-based program that automatically 'crawls' through web pages to gather and analyse data. Google uses crawlers that go through product pages and checkout processes using machine learning algorithms to fill in forms with information such as delivery addresses, and help compile other information on price, delivery, payments and more. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

SEO

What is Google StoreBot?

Google StoreBot is a web crawler operated by Google. The Google StoreBot is a search-engine-based program that automatically 'crawls' through web pages to gather and analyse data. Google uses crawlers that go through product pages and checkout processes using machine learning algorithms to fill in forms with information such as delivery addresses, and help compile other information on price, delivery, payments and more.

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

Identification

Bot name

Google StoreBot

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google StoreBot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Google as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google StoreBot 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 StoreBot

Block it

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

# Allow Google StoreBot full access
User-agent: Storebot-Google
Allow: /