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WARDBot

WARDBot tracks URL status codes, helping users monitor the availability of web pages they have added to the monitoring list.
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What is WARDBot?

WARDBot is WEBSPARK's AI crawler. WARDBot tracks URL status codes, helping users monitor the availability of web pages they have added to the monitoring list.

WARDBot matters for AI visibility because the pages it collects can shape what AI systems learn about your brand, products, and expertise. Allowing it can strengthen how accurately those systems describe and recommend you, while disallowing it keeps your content out of their reach. Either way, knowing WARDBot visits is the first step to managing how your brand shows up in AI search.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

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.

See every AI bot hitting your site

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 WARDBot

Whether to allow WARDBot depends on whether you or your customers rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

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

User-agent: WARDBot
Disallow: /

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

Examples

  • A publisher reviews server logs, sees WARDBot requesting long-form articles, and decides whether to allow or disallow it in robots.txt.
  • A site owner adds a Disallow rule for WARDBot to keep premium guides out of its dataset.

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Frequently asked questions about WARDBot

Learn about AI visibility monitoring and how Promptwatch helps your brand succeed in AI search.

WARDBot is operated by WEBSPARK. It functions as WEBSPARK's AI crawler.

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