Mediapartners-Google

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenMediapartners-Google
User-agent containsMediapartners-Google
OperatorGoogle
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges136 IPv4 + 136 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

The AdSense crawler. It reads a page so AdSense can choose relevant ads for it, and it is a special-case crawler that ignores the robots.txt * group.

What blocking it costs you

Pages it cannot read get generic, lower-value AdSense ads or none at all. This is the one block on this list that costs you money directly if you run AdSense.

Full user-agent string

Mediapartners-Google

Allow it instead

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-special-case-crawlers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · maximum-ai-visibility