SMTnetPMBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by SMTnet.
Crawls partner company's websites to include them in our on-site search engine.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
SMTnetPMBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
SMTnetPMBot/Nutch-1.16Anyone 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.
SMTnetPMBot 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: SMTnetPMBot Disallow: /
User-agent: SMTnetPMBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: SMTnetPMBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: SMTnetPMBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: SMTnetPMBot group, SMTnetPMBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.SMTnetPMBot from SMTnetPMBot's user agent; check SMTnet'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.
SMTnetPMBot brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake SMTnetPMBot requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep SMTnetPMBot allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersSMTnetPMBot indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow SMTnetPMBot on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows SMTnetPMBot 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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SMTnetPMBot is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by SMTnet. Crawls partner company's websites to include them in our on-site search engine.
Yes. SMTnetPMBot follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the SMTnetPMBot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: SMTnetPMBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "SMTnetPMBot/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so SMTnetPMBot may not follow it, and anyone can send SMTnetPMBot's user agent, so a fake SMTnetPMBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
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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