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