Operated by Neticle
NeticleBot is a crawler for Neticle, a media monitoring and text analysis company.
NeticleBot is a crawler for Neticle, a media monitoring and text analysis company.
NeticleBot is a commercial SEO analytics crawler operated by Neticle. It builds backlink graphs, crawls for technical SEO issues, and tracks keyword rankings. The user-agent NeticleBot is well-known and respected in the SEO industry. Blocking it removes your domain from Neticle's index, preventing competitors from analysing your backlink profile via their platform. However, other Neticle users also lose visibility into links pointing TO your site — weigh this trade-off carefully.
<code>User-agent: NeticleBot</code> — Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.
NeticleBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility).Understanding NeticleBot's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.
NeticleBot. This is the exact string you must use in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. User-agent matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive, but the string must be spelled correctly. You can verify that a request genuinely comes from NeticleBot by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP — legitimate bots resolve back to their operator's domain.NeticleBot is verifiable via reverse-DNS lookup on the crawling IP addresses. You can safely allow it unless you have a specific reason to block (e.g., AI training opt-out or SEO tool visibility)./robots.txt file:
User-agent: NeticleBot Disallow: /This instructs NeticleBot not to crawl any path on your site. The Disallow: / directive covers the entire domain including subfolders. To only block specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g.,
Disallow: /blog/). Note: robots.txt is publicly readable — any bot or human can inspect it at yourdomain.com/robots.txt.NeticleBot (case-insensitive grep: grep -i "NeticleBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). You can also check Google Search Console → Coverage → Crawl Stats for Googlebot variants. For NeticleBot specifically, filter by user-agent in your log analysis tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).User-agent: NeticleBot Crawl-delay: 10(10 second delay between requests).
Disallow: / you can restrict NeticleBot to specific paths:
User-agent: NeticleBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /staging/ Allow: /This allows NeticleBot everywhere except the listed paths. Path matching in robots.txt uses prefix matching —
Disallow: /private/ blocks /private/page.html but NOT /public/private/.