Overview
AdsBot-Google-Mobile is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is AdsBot-Google-Mobile; 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).
AdsBot-Google-Mobile is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
AdsBot-Google-Mobile has context-dependent robots.txt behavior because some requests may be user-triggered, product-triggered, or handled differently by the operator.
AdsBot-Google-Mobile can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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AdsBot-Google-Mobile - Aliases
- Google Ads mobile crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
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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) - Robots Token
- AdsBot-Google-Mobile
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence 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.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Purpose
- Indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- AdsBot-Google-Mobile is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- 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.
- Respects robots.txt
- Depends
- 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.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This rule may not apply to user-triggered or special-purpose requests. User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Google Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.