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SmartologyBot

Name: SmartologyBot
Author: Smartology

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The Smartology generates semantic vectors from domain pages in order to serve semantically-relevant ads on those pages Operated by Smartology.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is SmartologyBot?

SmartologyBot is a web crawler operated by Smartology. The Smartology generates semantic vectors from domain pages in order to serve semantically-relevant ads on those pages

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

Identification

Bot name

SmartologyBot

Operator

Smartology

Why it crawls your site

SmartologyBot crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by Smartology as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow SmartologyBot

Block it

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

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

Allow & verify

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