AdsBot-Google-Mobile

AdsBot-Google-Mobile

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Use Edge to compare the user-agent with IP, datacenter, behavior, path, and request history.

Verification method: Verify AdsBot-Google-Mobile by matching `AdsBot-Google-Mobile` to Google evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

AdsBot-Google-Mobile traffic is primarily detected by the `AdsBot-Google-Mobile` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Google Ads mobile crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; AdsBot-Google-Mobile; +http://www.google.com/mobile/adsbot.html)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the behavior matches your site policy.

AdsBot-Google-Mobile is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.

Aliases

Google Ads Mobile Crawler

Type

search

Operator

Google

Family

Google

Kind

Crawler

Purpose

Indexing

Identity

Official Documented

Detection confidence

High

Spoofing risk

AdsBot Google Mobile Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because The User Agent Can Be Copied, Even When The Bot Has Strong Source Or Documentation Support.

Status

Active

Respects robots.txt

Depends

Last verified

2026 06 23

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Disallow: /

• Source reference
• Operator reference
• Published IP range reference