OTHER AGENTS · GOOGLE

Mediapartners-Google

Advertising checks, monitors, security scanners and scripts that identify themselves loosely or not at all.

Copy the robots.txt rule

All other agents

Follows robots.txt
Can be verified
Docs checked 28 Oct 2026

At a glanceGoogle

VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, reverse DNS
Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
PurposeAdvertisingNot an AI product
TokenMediapartners-GoogleUse it in a User-agent line

robots.txt

The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.

Block Mediapartners-Google

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /

Allow Mediapartners-Google

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /

Quick facts

robots.txt token: Mediapartners-Google
User agent contains: Mediapartners-Google
Operator: Google
Category: Other agents
Purpose: Advertising
robots.txt: Follows robots.txt
Verification: Can be verified
Documentation: developers.google.com · checked 28 Oct 2026

If you block it

Ad systems cannot check your landing pages, which can affect ads that point to your site.

Check a visit is real

Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
Reverse DNS ending in googlebot.com or google.com, confirmed by forward DNS

Where this comes from

The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.

Registry version 2026-10-29.1

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