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SpiderLing'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:
Lexical Computing (Sketch Engine) does not publish a way to verify SpiderLing's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read Lexical Computing (Sketch Engine)'s documentation.
Lexical Computing (Sketch Engine) publishes no way to check it, so every visit filed here is taken at its word.
How to block SpiderLing
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 SpiderLing's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block SpiderLing from the whole site User-agent: SpiderLing User-agent: SketchEngine Disallow: /
It respects robots.txt and waits at least 20 seconds between requests to the same site.
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: SpiderLing User-agent: SketchEngine Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 02:00. The keepers are asleep. It knows.
Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 2 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 SpiderLing'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 SpiderLing respect robots.txt?
Yes. In 2 requests observed here it has read robots.txt and never fetched a disallowed page.
Will blocking SpiderLing hurt my search rankings?
Yes, for Lexical Computing (Sketch Engine)'s search engine. Blocked pages can drop out of its results. Other search engines are unaffected.
How often does SpiderLing 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.