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StatusNest Backlink Spider

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StatusNest's link-graph crawler. It visits public web pages to record their outbound and inbound links and maintain a graph of how sites connect to each other, for use by SEO and web analysts. The operator documents a maximum rate of one request per second per domain with automatic backoff, states that it collects only public link data and basic page metadata, and that it re-reads robots.txt before every crawl session. No addresses are published.

Operated by StatusNest · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexStatusNestBacklinkSpider
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; StatusNestBacklinkSpider/1.0; +https://statusnest.com/bot)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; StatusNestBacklinkSpider; +https://statusnest.com/)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: StatusNestBacklinkSpider)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.