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LinksIndexerBot

Name: LinksIndexerBot
Author: Links Indexer

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LinksIndexerBot is an SEO bot that crawls websites to index backlinks and aggregate website summaries. Operated by Links Indexer.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Page Preview

What is LinksIndexerBot?

LinksIndexerBot is a web crawler operated by Links Indexer. LinksIndexerBot is an SEO bot that crawls websites to index backlinks and aggregate website summaries.

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

Identification

Bot name

LinksIndexerBot

Operator

Links Indexer

Why it crawls your site

LinksIndexerBot crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Links Indexer as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow LinksIndexerBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for LinksIndexerBot 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 LinksIndexerBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: LinksIndexerBot
Disallow: /

# Allow LinksIndexerBot full access
User-agent: LinksIndexerBot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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