# AdsBot-Google

> Checks the quality of desktop landing pages for Google Ads. Google documents that it ignores the robots.txt * group with the ad publisher's permission, and obeys a group named for its own token.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | Tools and frameworks |
| robots.txt token | `AdsBot-Google` |
| user-agent contains | `AdsBot-Google` |
| robots.txt | ignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 136 IPv4 / 136 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-special-case-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Google Ads cannot score your landing pages, which lowers Ad Rank on the ads pointing at them. If you do not buy ads, blocking it costs nothing but bandwidth savings.

## Full user-agent string

```
AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/adsbot-google.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt