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Orlo Link Preview

The Orlo Link Preview bot is used by the Orlo social media management platform. It fetches previews of links that are scheduled to be published in social media posts.
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What is Orlo Link Preview?

Orlo Link Preview is Orlo's link preview bot. The Orlo Link Preview bot is used by the Orlo social media management platform. It fetches previews of links that are scheduled to be published in social media posts.

Orlo Link Preview controls how your links look when they are shared. Rich previews drive clicks across social and messaging platforms, and clean preview metadata also helps AI systems parse your pages. Allowing it keeps your content looking polished wherever it appears.

Like any automated client, Orlo Link Preview consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle Orlo Link Preview

You will usually want Orlo Link Preview allowed so shared links render rich previews. Block it only if you do not want preview cards generated for your pages.

To control Orlo Link Preview, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Orlo-LinkPreview
Disallow: /

Orlo does not publish a robots.txt commitment for Orlo Link Preview, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • When a user shares a link, Orlo Link Preview fetches the page's Open Graph tags to build a rich preview card.
  • A team adds Open Graph and image metadata so Orlo Link Preview renders an attractive preview for shared URLs.

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Frequently asked questions about Orlo Link Preview

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Orlo Link Preview is operated by Orlo. It functions as Orlo's link preview bot.

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