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Alexa Internet bots and crawlers
Alexa Internet was an Amazon web traffic ranking service, retired in 2022.
Alexa Internet bots at a glance
- Alexa Internet runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Archives and Research Crawlers.
- Each Alexa Internet bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.alexa.com
Every Alexa Internet bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ia_archiver | Archives and Research Crawlers | Product featureReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Alexa Internet bots
The rules below name every Alexa Internet token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Alexa Internet bots
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Alexa Internet bots
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Alexa Internet bots out of private areas only
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Alexa Internet bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(ia_archiver)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Alexa Internet bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (ia_archiver) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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