Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Name: Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
Author: Google

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Verify Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps 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.

[This crawler is officially retired as per Google] AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps is Google’s crawler designed to evaluate landing pages used in mobile app promotion campaigns on Google Ads. It simulates a mobile app–driven environment to assess page load speed, relevance, usability, and compliance with Google Ads policies. These evaluations directly influence ad quality scores and campaign performance. Blocking it may prevent Google from validating landing pages for app ads, potentially lowering ad effectiveness or eligibility. Crawl activity is targeted and on-demand, typically occurring when app promotion ads are created, updated, or actively running. It ignores the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Contains: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Robots.txt Configuration for Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Robots.txt User-Agent:AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
Allow: /

Completely Block Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

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

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

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

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Mobile Apps Android / AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps can request pages (in seconds):

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

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