LinkWalker
Owner of the robot : SEVENtwentyfour Inc.
Country : Canada
Robot type : search engine
Description : The robot searches for broken links. When it finds some, a proposal for a link checker service is sent by e-mail to the webmaster.
User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :
- LinkWalker/2.0
IP address range :
- from 209.167.50.16 to 209.167.50.31 (seventwentyfour.com)
(last visit in October 2007)
Access control options understood by the robot :
- robots.txt
User Agent to use in the robots.txt file : unknown
URL for more information :
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:10 am
I just blocked the robot coz I dont actually see any use of it.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Linkwalker was hitting my website daily and downloading everything on it. I suspect it was trying to eat up my bandwidth. All websites should ban this robot forever.