netEstate Imprint Crawler

Operator

netEstate

robots.txt token

netEstate Imprint Crawler

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Other bots

What it does

netEstate Imprint Crawler is an AI data scraper operated by netEstate. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.

ai.robots.txt describes its function as: AI Data Scrapers

Source: ai.robots.txt.

How to block or allow netEstate Imprint Crawler

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts netEstate Imprint Crawler

When a request's user agent contains netEstate Imprint Crawler, Vireo keeps it out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Other bots, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over the bot's name.

Sources

• ai.robots.txt (MIT)