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Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer

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Verify Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer 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.

Google Publisher Center is a platform that allows news publishers to manage how their content appears across Google News surfaces. When publishers submit feeds, sections, or site updates, Google may fetch associated URLs using Publisher Center–related user-agents to verify content, metadata, and feed accuracy. These fetches are not broad crawls; they are targeted checks tied to publisher actions such as updating feeds, article structures, or publication settings. Blocking it can disrupt feed validation or delay updates in Google News. Activity is typically light, triggered by publisher configuration changes or system refresh cycles. It ignores the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Contains: GoogleProducer; (+https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-producer)
Example user agent strings for Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer

Robots.txt Configuration for Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer

Robots.txt User-Agent:GoogleProducer

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer:

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /

Completely Block Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Google Publisher Center / GoogleProducer can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

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