Google-Site-Verification

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGoogle-Site-Verification
User-agent containsGoogle-Site-Verification
OperatorGoogle
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtnot governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges529 IPv4 + 529 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Fetches the token file or meta tag that proves you own a site, when you click verify in Search Console. Google publishes fetcher addresses in two files — user-triggered-fetchers.json and user-triggered-fetchers-google.json — and does not say per fetcher which one applies, so verification means checking both; this index mirrors both.

What blocking it costs you

Your own Search Console verification fails. Blocking this only ever hurts the person doing the blocking.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-disputed · maximum-ai-visibility