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How can I stop Insites auditing my website?

How to prevent your website from being accessed and audited by Insites

Written by Holly Jimenez

If you don’t want your website to be audited using Insites, you can block the Insites crawler by adding a specific directive to your website’s robots.txt file.

Add the Insites directive

Open your existing robots.txt file or create a new plain-text file named robots.txt. Add the following lines:

User-agent: Insites 
Disallow: /

The User-agent line identifies the Insites crawler, while Disallow: / tells Insites not to access any pages on your website.

Publish the robots.txt file

Upload the file to the top-level directory of your website. It should be available at an address like:

https://www.example.com/robots.txt

If your website already has a robots.txt file, add the Insites directive as a separate group without removing any existing rules.

Important

Insites must be named specifically in the User-agent directive. A wildcard rule using User-agent: * will not prevent Insites from auditing your website.

Once the specific directive has been published, Insites will respect it and will not audit the website.

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