A summary of the woorankreview Internet robot. Including details for the owner, description, HTTP user agent and whether this robot adheres to the robot exclusion standard.
Who owns the woorankreview robot? Is it a good or a bad robot? And why is it visiting your website?
Shown below is a sample log file entry for the woorankreview web robot. It’s derived from an Apache web server log file. From the log entry information about how the robot identifies itself, HTTP User Agent, and where it is hosted are given.
Server Log File
www.vntweb.co.uk 3.80.187.142 - - [12/Jun/2019:13:15:52 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8740 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; woorankreview/2.0; +https://www.woorank.com/)"
HTTP User Agent
woorankreview/2.0
IP Addresses
The observed IP address was 3.80.187.142.
WHOIS DNS command gives the following information about the IP address:
| NetRange: | 3.80.0.0 – 3.95.255.255 |
| NetName: | AMAZON-IAD |
| OrgName: | Amazon Data Services NoVa |
| Address: | 13200 Woodland Park Road13200 Woodland Park Road |
| City: | Herndon |
| StateProv: | VA |
| PostalCode: | 20171 |
| Country: | US |
| Updated: | 2018-04-25 |
As can be seen from the above the observed IP address is a part of a block assigned to Amazon’s NOVA Cloud computing specialisation.
Owner
Woorank
Country
Belgium
Exclusion
The user-agent string includes a reference to the website https://www.woorank.com/.
The referenced website doesn’t provide details about how its bot supports the robots exclusion text and obeys the crawl delay.
The robots.txt exclusion standard, which was described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt, but is not currently available. Information is available on the same website https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html and also on the w3c website at https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4.1.1.
No details are given about preventing the robot from indexing the website, likewise no mention about how to adjust its crawl rate.
You may wish to try including the following entry in the robots.txt file to prevent woorankreview from visiting your site
User-agent: woorankreview Disallow: /
You may also wish to trial controlling the frequency of woorankreview visiting your site, setting a minimum acceptable delay between consecutive requests can be set with the following added to the robots.txt file:
User-agent: woorankreview Crawl-Delay: 10
In this example the delay has been set to 10 seconds.
As is common with website crawlers there is a delay between changes made to the robots.txt file and the change being implemented.
Take care making changes to the robots.txt file. A misunderstanding in configuration or an error in configuration can lead to important search engines excluding your website.
Further Info
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