Verify AdsBot IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Google, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

AdsBot-Google is Google’s crawler responsible for evaluating landing pages used in Google Ads campaigns. It performs desktop-focused checks on page quality, load speed, relevance, and policy compliance. These assessments directly influence ad quality scores, cost efficiency, and overall eligibility. Blocking AdsBot prevents Google from reviewing landing pages, which can degrade or disable ad performance. Crawl activity is selective and tied to active or recently modified ad campaigns rather than broad indexing. Its purpose is to ensure that advertisers maintain fast, trustworthy, and policy-compliant landing pages. It ignores the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies AdsBot/AdsBot-Google using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine AdsBot/AdsBot-Google traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Contains: AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)
Example user agent strings for AdsBot

Robots.txt Configuration for AdsBot

Robots.txt User-Agent:AdsBot-Google

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target AdsBot.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for AdsBot:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

Completely Block AdsBot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /

Completely Allow AdsBot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently AdsBot can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.