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trendictionbot'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:
Trendiction does not publish a way to verify trendictionbot's traffic. Treat its user agent as a claim, not proof: anyone can send it. Read Trendiction's documentation.
Trendiction publishes no way to check it, so every visit filed here is taken at its word.
How to block trendictionbot
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 trendictionbot's next visit. Nothing else on your site needs to change.
# Block trendictionbot from the whole site User-agent: trendictionbot Disallow: /
trendictionbot obeys robots.txt, but a change can take up to five days to apply.
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: trendictionbot Allow: / Disallow: /members/
Observed behaviour
Most active around 11:00. Office hours, like a professional.
Requested 1 disallowed pages out of 113 requests. Read robots.txt 53 times.
Walked through the hidden /trap/ door. Last caught 19 days ago.
Where it comes from
The networks trendictionbot'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 trendictionbot respect robots.txt?
Mostly. It reads robots.txt, but it has fetched a disallowed page 1 times out of 113 requests observed here.
Will blocking trendictionbot 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 trendictionbot 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.