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TrustedSite

Crawl a customer website to perform basic validation.
TrustedSite (formerly McAfee SECURE)TrustedSite
Academic Research

What is TrustedSite?

TrustedSite is TrustedSite (formerly McAfee SECURE)'s research crawler. Crawl a customer website to perform basic validation.

TrustedSite collects pages for research rather than commercial indexing. Research corpora are a common starting point for public AI training datasets, so content it gathers can end up influencing what models know about your brand even though the crawl itself is academic.

Like any automated client, TrustedSite 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.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

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Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle TrustedSite

Allow TrustedSite if you are comfortable with your pages appearing in research datasets. Disallow it if you want to limit how far your content travels, including into datasets later used for AI training.

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

User-agent: TrustedSite
Disallow: /

TrustedSite (formerly McAfee SECURE) does not publish a robots.txt commitment for TrustedSite, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • A publisher sees TrustedSite requesting full article text for a corpus study and decides whether to allow it.
  • A site owner disallows TrustedSite to keep subscriber-only content out of research datasets.

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TrustedSite is operated by TrustedSite (formerly McAfee SECURE). It functions as TrustedSite (formerly McAfee SECURE)'s research crawler.

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