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Mediatoolkitbot's food bowl
the bowl, as bots see itThe bowl is empty.
Identification
Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:
Determ does not publish a way to verify Mediatoolkitbot's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read Determ's documentation.
Determ publishes no way to check it, so every visit filed here is taken at its word.
How to block Mediatoolkitbot
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 Mediatoolkitbot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block Mediatoolkitbot from the whole site User-agent: Mediatoolkitbot Disallow: /
It respects robots.txt, including Crawl-delay. Complaints go to complaints@determ.com.
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: Mediatoolkitbot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 15:00. Office hours, like a professional.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 2 requests. Never read robots.txt.
Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.
Where it comes from
The networks Mediatoolkitbot'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 Mediatoolkitbot 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 Mediatoolkitbot hurt my search rankings?
No. SEO crawlers build tools for marketers. Blocking them hides your links from those tools, not from search engines.
How often does Mediatoolkitbot 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.