Groundmarker crawler

Information for site owners and administrators.

Groundmarker operates a web crawler that visits public pages to check technical SEO health. It is run by Brad Bond AI, a sole proprietorship based in Nova Scotia, Canada.

User agent

Groundmarker/1.0 (+https://groundmarker.com/bot)

What it does

• Requests public HTML pages and reads their markup
• Checks titles, meta tags, headings, links, redirects and status codes
• Discards the page content once those checks are finished

What it does not do

• Submit forms or interact with your site in any way
• Log in, or request anything behind authentication
• Keep copies of your pages after checking them
• Collect or store personal information found on your pages

How it behaves

• Obeys robots.txt, including Crawl-delay
• One request at a time per site, with a delay between requests
• Backs off automatically on 429 and 5xx responses
• Limits sites that are not operated by our customers to 100 pages

How to block it

Add this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Groundmarker
Disallow: /

We honour it from the next crawl onward. You do not need to contact us.

Contact

If you have questions, or a problem with our crawling, email brad@bradbond.org and we will respond.