AlphalensBot is a bot in the AI search crawlers category, operated by Alphalens.
Indexes companies and their offerings to power more effective business discovery.
AI search crawlers index pages so that AI answer engines can cite and link to them in their responses. Blocking them removes your pages from those answers, so many sites allow them while blocking training crawlers.
AlphalensBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
alphalens-botAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
AlphalensBot follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: alphalens-bot Disallow: /
User-agent: alphalens-bot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: alphalens-bot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: alphalens-bot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: alphalens-bot group, AlphalensBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.alphalens-bot from AlphalensBot's user agent; check Alphalens's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
AlphalensBot decides whether AI answers cite and link your articles. Many publishers allow it while blocking training crawlers, and rate limit it so it does not crowd out readers.
Transfon Security for publishersAI search can send visitors to your landing pages. Keep AlphalensBot's own visits out of campaign reports so you can measure the real referrals.
Transfon Security for advertisersBeing indexed by AlphalensBot can put your products in AI shopping answers. Allow it on product and category pages, and keep it off cart, checkout and account pages.
Transfon Security for e-commerceLetting AlphalensBot index docs and pricing pages helps AI answers describe your product correctly. Keep it away from login and API endpoints.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows AlphalensBot by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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AlphalensBot is a bot in the AI search crawlers category, operated by Alphalens. Indexes companies and their offerings to power more effective business discovery.
Yes. AlphalensBot follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the alphalens-bot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: alphalens-bot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "alphalens-bot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so AlphalensBot may not follow it, and anyone can send AlphalensBot's user agent, so a fake AlphalensBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
AI search crawlers index pages so that AI answer engines can cite and link to them in their responses. Blocking them removes your pages from those answers, so many sites allow them while blocking training crawlers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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