Google-Sitemaps — What It Is and How to Handle It

Google Sitemaps crawler

Operator: Google | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

Google-Sitemaps is a search engine crawler. Blocking it may affect your visibility in its associated search engine. Most publishers choose to allow verified search engine crawlers.

Centinel automatically detects Google-Sitemaps using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.