Should I block MJ12Bot?
Please do not block our bot via IP in htaccess – we do not use any consecutive IP blocks as we are a community based distributed crawler. Please always make sure the bot can actually retrieve robots. txt itself. If it can’t then it will assume that it is okay to crawl your site.
What is Zoominfobot Zoominfobot at Zoominfo dot com?
Zoominfobot is an indexing robot for a web search engine, similar to Google. Created by Zoom Information Inc. (www.zoominfo.com), Zoominfobot’s patented technology continually scans millions of corporate websites, press releases, electronic news services, SEC filings and other online sources.
How often do I need to block mj12bot?
MJ12bot adheres to the robots.txt standard. If you want the bot to prevent website from being crawled then add the following text to your robots.txt: From your comments on another answer, MJ12Bot is visiting your site less than once an hour (421 times in 25 days.)
How to block mj12bot in robots.txt?
MJ12bot adheres to the robots.txt standard. If you want the bot to prevent website from being crawled then add the following text to your robots.txt: Please do not block our bot via IP in htaccess – we do not use any consecutive IP blocks as we are a community based distributed crawler.
When to use off site redirects for mj12bot?
Off site redirects when requesting robots.txt – MJ12Bot follows redirects, but only on the same domain. The ideal is for robots.txt to be available at “/robots.txt” as specified in the standard. Multiple domains running on the same server.
Why is mj12bot not crawling my website?
Some ISPs and badly configured firewalls may stop MJ12Bot from crawling your website. This is usually because the ISP or Firewall does not understand that in doing so, they are blocking genuine visitors to your website at a later date. Some also do this to minimize bandwidth.