Overview
Google Business Link Verification is a security scanner from Google used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Google-BusinessLinkVerification; related patterns include google-businesslink-verification.
Google Business Link Verification is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Google Business Link Verification is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Google Business Link Verification should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent
Google-BusinessLinkVerification- Aliases
- google-businesslink-verification
- HTTP Agent Examples
Google-BusinessLinkVerification- Robots.txt Token
Google-BusinessLinkVerification- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Google-BusinessLinkVerification` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Security
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- Purpose
- security
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Google Business Link Verification is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.
- Detection Notes
- Google Business Link Verification traffic is primarily detected by the `Google-BusinessLinkVerification` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `google-businesslink-verification`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Google Business Link Verification has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Google-BusinessLinkVerification Disallow: /