Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
AgentTrust does not publish a way to verify AgentTrustBot's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read AgentTrust's documentation.
How to block AgentTrustBot
Add these two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. Well-behaved crawlers read it before they crawl, so the change applies from AgentTrustBot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block AgentTrustBot from the whole site User-agent: AgentTrustBot Disallow: /
Or let it visit but keep it away from part of the site:
# Let it in, but keep it out of one room User-agent: AgentTrustBot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 05:00. The keepers are asleep. It knows.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 6 requests. Read robots.txt 1 times.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks AgentTrustBot's visits came from:
Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.
Keeper's field notes
Questions site owners ask
Does AgentTrustBot respect robots.txt?
Yes. In 6 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.
Will blocking AgentTrustBot hurt my search rankings?
No. AgentTrustBot isn't used by Google or Bing to rank pages. Blocking it only affects whether AgentTrust collects your content.
How often does AgentTrustBot visit?
Here, about 1 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.