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Specimen file · Search Engine Savanna

Mediapartners-Google

Lucrator adsensis

What is Mediapartners-Google?

Google AdSense's crawler. It reads pages so AdSense can show relevant ads on them. It is operated by Google and identifies itself as Mediapartners-Google.

Temperament: commercial. Reads every exhibit card closely, then quietly suggests a mattress.

Operator
Google
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
Not yet
Last seen
Not yet
Visits today
0
This week
0
All time
0
Caught in the trap
Never
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ Mediapartners-Google

To check a visitor really is Mediapartners-Google, run a reverse DNS lookup on its IP address and confirm the hostname ends in .googlebot.com, .google.com, .googleusercontent.com. Then run a forward lookup on that hostname and check it returns the same IP. Anything that fails is an impostor; the zoo checks every visit this way and files the failures in the Trap Room.

§ II.

How to block Mediapartners-Google

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 Mediapartners-Google's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.

robots.txt
# Block Mediapartners-Google from the whole site
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /

If your site shows AdSense ads, do not block it. Without it, AdSense cannot read your pages and ads become less relevant.

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: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /
Disallow: /members/
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 1 / day
3 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h
robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 0 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Requests that use Mediapartners-Google's name but fail Google's network check are filed separately, as impostors. These are the visits that passed, or that could not be checked at the time:

Nothing on record in the last 30 days.

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.

§ V.

Questions site owners ask

Does Mediapartners-Google respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking Mediapartners-Google hurt my search rankings?

No. But if you run AdSense, blocking it makes your ads less relevant, which usually means they earn less.

How often does Mediapartners-Google visit?

Here, about 0 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.

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