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MGID bots and crawlers
MGID runs a native advertising network.
MGID bots at a glance
- MGID runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Ads and Platform Fetchers.
- Each MGID bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.mgid.com
Every MGID bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MgidBot | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all MGID bots
The rules below name every MGID 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 MGID bots
User-agent: MgidBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all MGID bots
User-agent: MgidBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all MGID bots out of private areas only
User-agent: MgidBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all MGID bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(MgidBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all MGID bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (MgidBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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