DuckDuckBot User-Agent & Blocking Rules
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What is DuckDuckBot?
DuckDuckBot is the web crawler for DuckDuckGo. While DuckDuckGo largely sources results from Bing, this bot is used for favicon fetching and other specific indexing tasks.
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Enter URL to test if DuckDuckBot is allowed or blocked.
Is DuckDuckBot Safe?
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This bot is verified and generally respected by the SEO community.
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User-Agent String used by DuckDuckBot
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Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent DuckDuckBot from accessing your site.
User-agent: DuckDuckBot Disallow: /