Google-Site-Verification

What is Google-Site-Verification?

About

Google-Site-Verification is a verification service that proves website ownership for Google Search Console access by checking verification tokens like HTML tags or files on websites. You can see how often Google-Site-Verification visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google-Site-Verification
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Country of Origin

United States
Google-Site-Verification normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

Internet and Telecom
Business and Industrial
Health
Food and Drink
Travel and Transportation
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google-Site-Verification?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Google-Site-Verification?

You can block Google-Site-Verification or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Developer Helpers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new developer helpers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Google-Site-Verification # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/google-site-verification
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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