Mediaboardbot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Mediaboard.
Mediaboard's web crawler (media monitoring) detects client mentions in online news and public content.
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.
Mediaboardbot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mediaboardbot/1.0; +https://www.mediaboard.com/)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 Mediaboardbot 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: mediaboardbot Disallow: /
User-agent: mediaboardbot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: mediaboardbot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: mediaboardbot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: mediaboardbot group, Mediaboardbot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.mediaboardbot from Mediaboardbot's user agent; check Mediaboard'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 Mediaboardbot if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersMediaboardbot is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow Mediaboardbot only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf Mediaboardbot 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 Mediaboardbot 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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Mediaboardbot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Mediaboard. Mediaboard's web crawler (media monitoring) detects client mentions in online news and public content.
We have not confirmed whether Mediaboardbot 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: mediaboardbot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "mediaboardbot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Mediaboardbot may not follow it, and anyone can send Mediaboardbot's user agent, so a fake Mediaboardbot 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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