GuestpostsBot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Guest Posts.
GuestpostsBot is a Web Crawler that has several functions to facilitate the website owner who has registered his site on the guestposts.com.br platform to monitor his site. The bot constantly tracks the sites registered on the platform in order to check if the partnerships made on the guestpost platform are still active, in addition to validating if the site exists to allow registration and also monitoring the status of the site from time to time to warn the website owner in case of any inoperability.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
GuestpostsBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GuestpostsBot/2.0; +https://guestposts.com.br/blog/robot/)Anyone 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.
We have not confirmed whether GuestpostsBot follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: GuestpostsBot Disallow: /
User-agent: GuestpostsBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: GuestpostsBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: GuestpostsBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: GuestpostsBot group, GuestpostsBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.GuestpostsBot from GuestpostsBot's user agent; check Guest Posts'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.
Allow GuestpostsBot if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersGuestpostsBot is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow GuestpostsBot only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf GuestpostsBot is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows GuestpostsBot 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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GuestpostsBot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Guest Posts. GuestpostsBot is a Web Crawler that has several functions to facilitate the website owner who has registered his site on the guestposts.com.br platform to monitor his site. The bot constantly tracks the sites registered on the platform in order to check if the partnerships made on the guestpost platform are still active, in addition to validating if the site exists to allow registration and also monitoring the status of the site from time to time to warn the website owner in case of any inoperability.
We have not confirmed whether GuestpostsBot follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: GuestpostsBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "GuestpostsBot/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so GuestpostsBot may not follow it, and anyone can send GuestpostsBot's user agent, so a fake GuestpostsBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
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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