LinkedInBot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a LinkedInBot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML and Open Graph tags LinkedIn reads for link previews.
Simulate a LinkedInBot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as LinkedInBot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the LinkedInBot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the LinkedInBot user agent
The tester sends the request with the LinkedInBot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real LinkedInBot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as LinkedInBot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags LinkedInBot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, LinkedInBot cannot read it.
What is LinkedInBot?
LinkedInBot is LinkedIn's web crawler that fetches pages when links are shared on the platform. It reads Open Graph and meta tags to generate rich previews with images, titles, and descriptions. Proper LinkedIn preview optimization is crucial for B2B marketing and professional content distribution.
Why allow LinkedInBot?
LinkedInBot robots.txt configuration
Control how LinkedInBot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
Allow LinkedInBot
# Allow LinkedInBot User-agent: LinkedInBot Allow: /
Block LinkedInBot
# Block LinkedInBot (not recommended) User-agent: LinkedInBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: LinkedInBot/1.0 (+http://www.linkedin.com)
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