What is Noorobot?

Noorobot is a bot in the advertising and marketing bots category, operated by Noor Digital Agency AB.

Bot name
Noorobot
Operator
Noor Digital Agency AB
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
noorobot
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About Noorobot

Noorobot is an SEO tool that periodically crawls customer websites to provide recommendations and identify potential SEO-impacting problems.

Advertising bots review landing pages, check ad placements and classify pages for brand safety and contextual targeting. Blocking ad verification bots can stop your ads or your inventory from serving, so allow the ones your ad partners use.

Noorobot user agent

Noorobot identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • noorobot

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.

How to block Noorobot in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether Noorobot 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.

Block Noorobot from the whole site

User-agent: noorobot
Disallow: /

Block Noorobot from some folders

User-agent: noorobot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow Noorobot only on some folders

User-agent: noorobot
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow Noorobot and block other crawlers

User-agent: noorobot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: noorobot group, Noorobot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take noorobot from Noorobot's user agent; check Noor Digital Agency AB's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. Noorobot may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that Noorobot follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send Noorobot's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by Noor Digital Agency AB's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real Noorobot from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about Noorobot

Publishers

Ad verification and contextual crawlers like Noorobot can decide whether your pages get demand. Blocking the ones your partners use can lower fill rates.

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Media buyers and advertisers

Noorobot checks pages for ad platforms. Its visits to landing pages are not users, so exclude them from conversion data.

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E-commerce

Ad platforms send crawlers like Noorobot to check product landing pages. Keep it allowed so ads are not disapproved, and out of analytics.

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SaaS and APIs

Allow Noorobot on landing pages linked from your ads, and keep it off the app.

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Block Noorobot with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Noorobot 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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Control Noorobot on your site

  • See every Noorobot visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit Noorobot with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is Noorobot?

Noorobot is a bot in the advertising and marketing bots category, operated by Noor Digital Agency AB. Noorobot is an SEO tool that periodically crawls customer websites to provide recommendations and identify potential SEO-impacting problems.

Does Noorobot respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether Noorobot 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.

How do I block Noorobot?

Add "User-agent: noorobot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "noorobot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block Noorobot?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Noorobot may not follow it, and anyone can send Noorobot's user agent, so a fake Noorobot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block Noorobot?

Advertising bots review landing pages, check ad placements and classify pages for brand safety and contextual targeting. Blocking ad verification bots can stop your ads or your inventory from serving, so allow the ones your ad partners use.

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