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Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler

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Yahoo Japan search engine crawler for SEO analysis Operated by LY Corporation.

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Assessment

SEO

What is Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler?

Y!J-BRW is a specialized crawler deployed by LY Corporation to support the indexing and search functionality of Yahoo! JAPAN. Unlike the legacy Slurp bot associated with Yahoo.com, this specific user-agent is tailored for the Japanese market, ensuring that local content is accurately represented in search queries. It operates as a standard search engine crawler, respecting robots.txt directives to maintain site performance and relevance.

Helpful — This is a legitimate search engine crawler that helps websites appear in Yahoo! JAPAN search results.

Identification

Bot name

Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler

Operator

LY Corporation

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls the web to build and maintain the index for Yahoo! JAPAN's search services, allowing users to find relevant information efficiently. By visiting websites, it gathers metadata and content to determine ranking and categorization within the search engine. Site owners can verify the bot's authenticity by checking the official Yahoo! JAPAN support documentation and ensuring the source IP addresses originate from verified LY Corporation network ranges.

Block or allow Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for J-BRW 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 Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: J-BRW
Disallow: /

# Allow Yahoo Japan SEO Crawler full access
User-agent: J-BRW
Allow: /