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Index: amazonbot =================================================================== --- amazonbot 2026-06-28 +++ amazonbot 2026-07-31 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ as Settings Sign out -Webmasters can manage how their sites and content are used by Amazon with the following web crawlers. Amazon honors industry standard opt-out directives. Each setting is independent of the others, and may take ~24 hours for our systems to reflect changes. +This page describes how webmasters can control Amazonbot, Amzn-SearchBot, and Amzn-User interactions with their site. Each user agent setting is independent of the others, and may take ~24 hours for our systems to reflect changes. Amazonbot Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models. Example User Agent String: @@ -37,29 +37,33 @@ Published IP Addresses: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresses/ Amzn-User -Amzn-User supports user actions, such as responding to Alexa queries that require up-to-date information. For example, when a customer asks a question, Amzn-User may fetch live information from the web to provide accurate answers on the user’s behalf. -Amzn-User does not crawl content for generative AI model training. +Amzn-User supports user actions, such as responding to Alexa queries that require up-to-date information. For example, when a customer asks a question, Amzn-User may fetch live information from the web to provide accurate answers on the user’s behalf. Because actions taken by Amzn-User can be initiated by a user, it may not follow all robots.txt directives.Amzn-User does not crawl content for generative AI model training. Example User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amzn-User/0.1) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 Published IP Addresses: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/live-ip-addresses/ Our Approach to Robots.txt -Amazon respects the +Automated crawling from these listed user agents respects the Robots Exclusion Protocol -, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives. Amazon will fetch host-level robots.txt files or use a cached copy from the last 30 days. When a file can’t be fetched, Amazon will behave as if it does not exist. -Amazon attempts to read robots.txt files at the host level (for example +, honoring the user-agent and the allow/disallow directives. They will fetch host-level robots.txt files or use a cached copy from the last 30 days. When a file can’t be fetched, they will behave as if it does not exist. +These user agents attempt to read robots.txt files at the host level (for example example.com -), so it looks for robots.txt at +), so they look for robots.txt at example.com/robots.txt -. If a domain has multiple hosts, then we will honor robots rules exposed under each host. For example, if there is also a +. If a domain has multiple hosts, then they will honor robots rules exposed under each host. For example, if there is also a site.example.com -host, it will look for robots.txt at +host, they will look for robots.txt at site.example.com/robots.txt -When Amazon crawlers access web pages they respect the link-level rel=nofollow directive, and page level robots meta tags of noarchive (do not use the page for model training), noindex (do not index the page) and none (do not index the page). Amazon crawlers do not support the crawl-delay directive. +. +When these user agents access web pages they respect the link-level rel=nofollow directive, and page level robots meta tags of noarchive (do not use the page for model training), noindex (do not index the page) and none (do not index the page). They do not support the crawl-delay directive. Contact Us If you are a content owner or publisher and have questions, please contact us at [email protected] . Always include any relevant domain names in your message. +Explore more +If you allow Amazonbot on your robots.txt, you may be eligible for benefits with Amazon Content Partners. Amazon Content Partners gives independent content creators a +1% affiliate commission boost on eligible sales, free hosting credits, and AI traffic management tools — all in one program. Learn more at +contentpartners.amazon.com +. Back to Top Follow us: Legal