What is Notabot?
Direct Answer: Notabot is a crawler operated by Helpfeel for integrating external search engine.
Notabot is a web crawler used by Helpfeel to integrate their external search engine. It is designed to crawl and index web content. The bot's behavior is controlled by its configuration in the database.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Notabot in your live traffic data:
Notabot
robots.txt Rules for Notabot
Respects robots.txt: No
Use the following robots.txt rules to control Notabot access:
# Block Notabot
User-agent: Notabot
Disallow: /
# Allow Notabot
User-agent: Notabot
Allow: /This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
Notabot does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:Not Documented
Request Pattern:Not Documented
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Notabot over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.
View recent activity data (last 7 days)
| Date | Activity Index |
|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.9 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Notabot traffic?
Measure what Helpfeel gives back. Notabot crawls thousands of your pages — but how much traffic does Helpfeel actually send in return? Track referral visits from Helpfeel's search products relative to crawl volume.
Monitor crawl budget and indexation health. Notabot determines which of your pages appear in Helpfeel's search results. Tracking its crawl patterns reveals how often your key pages are visited, what gets ignored, and where crawl budget is wasted.
Detect crawl anomalies early. A sudden drop in Notabot activity can signal indexation problems — before they show up as organic traffic losses.
Catch 4XX and 5XX errors before they hurt rankings. If Notabot hits broken pages or server errors during crawling, those URLs may be dropped from the index. Early detection in your logs lets you fix the issue before it impacts your organic visibility.
Validate that your robots.txt rules are enforced. Configuring robots.txt is one thing — confirming that Notabot actually respects your directives is another. Live traffic validation is the only way to verify.
Why live traffic verification instead of Search Console? Search Console shows what Helpfeel tells you. Live traffic verification shows what actually happened — including AI-related crawling that Search Console doesn't report.
Read: Live traffic verification vs Search Console for crawl monitoring →Log Verification
To verify Notabot traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Helpfeel)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.
Undocumented Information
The following information is not officially documented for Notabot:
- crawl frequency
- request pattern
- IP verification
- JavaScript rendering
Monitor Notabot alongside 500+ other bots
Track crawl health, detect anomalies, and measure how AI features are changing your referral traffic — all from your live traffic data.
- Crawl frequency, coverage, and error monitoring for Notabot
- Compare traditional organic referrals vs AI-generated referrals
- Detect fake Notabot traffic (user-agent spoofing)
Measure business impact from Notabot
Crawl activity directly impacts organic visibility. The question is: is Notabot crawling the right pages at the right frequency?
- Crawl coverage: which paths and page types Notabot is actually crawling
- Crawl freshness: how recently Notabot visited key URLs
- Health: response code distribution (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) with alerts when failed crawls spike
- Referral tracking: Notabot takes — measure what Helpfeel gives back. Track actual visits arriving from Helpfeel's products to your site.
Based on your live traffic data and analytics — not synthetic prompt tests.
Official Documentation
View Official Notabot Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.