YahooSeeker User-Agent & Blocking Rules

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What is YahooSeeker?

YahooSeeker is a crawler used by Yahoo for various content discovery tasks, distinct from the main Slurp crawler.

Owner Yahoo
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Test if YahooSeeker can access your URL

Enter URL to test if YahooSeeker is allowed or blocked.

https://
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Is YahooSeeker Safe?

Yes, YahooSeeker is considered safe.

This bot is verified and generally respected by the SEO community.

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User-Agent String used by YahooSeeker

YahooSeeker

How to Block YahooSeeker?

Add the following standard robots.txt rule to prevent YahooSeeker from accessing your site.

User-agent: YahooSeeker
Disallow: /