LinkedInBot

LinkedInBot is the official web crawler for LinkedIn Corporation. It systematically browses websites to collect information that is relevant to the professional networking platform. The bot helps LinkedIn gather public data about companies, job openings, and professional content to improve the functionality of its services. It identifies itself in server logs with user-agent strings like LinkedInBot/1.0 (...). As a legitimate crawler, it is designed to respect standard web protocols, including robots.txt directives.

LinkedInBot is crawling your website to gather information relevant to professional networking and business intelligence. If your site contains job listings, details about your company, or professional articles, the crawler may visit to index this content. The goal is to update your company's profile on LinkedIn, index job postings for LinkedIn's job search, and gather other business data. The frequency of visits is often tied to how often this type of content changes on your site.

The purpose of LinkedInBot is to support LinkedIn's core mission of connecting professionals by populating and maintaining its extensive database of companies and job opportunities. The data it collects helps enhance company profiles with current information and keeps job listings up-to-date. For website owners, particularly corporate sites or job boards, this activity is beneficial. When the bot correctly indexes your content, it can increase your company's visibility on the LinkedIn platform, which can drive professional engagement and attract qualified job applicants.

If you wish to prevent LinkedInBot from accessing your site, you can add a disallow rule to your robots.txt file. Keep in mind this may prevent information from your site, such as job openings, from being updated on the LinkedIn platform.

To block this bot, add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Disallow: /