What is Yext Inc?
Yext Inc is an intelligence gatherer operated by Yext. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Yext |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 1, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Yext Inc visits with a specific set of goals. Expect focused, repeated requests to the pages its clients monitor, like pricing, product listings, and announcements, on schedules ranging from hourly to weekly. Sites outside a client's watchlist may never see it at all.
How To Block Yext Inc With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Yext Inc from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Yext Inc # https://knownagents.com/agents/yext-inc
Disallow: /Global Insights for Yext Inc
As of August 1, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block Yext Inc in their robots.txt files.
Overall Intelligence Gatherer Traffic
4.5% of all web traffic came from intelligence gatherers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Yext Inc?
Decide who benefits. Yext Inc collects pricing, product, and brand data for its operator's clients, and those clients can include your competitors. Allow it if visibility in market research matters to you. Block it if you would rather not hand competitors structured data about your business. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for Yext Inc right now.
Does Yext Inc Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Yext Inc is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Yext Inc actually follows it.
Does Yext Inc Access Private Content?
Public business information is the target. Pricing pages, product listings, and announcements are what its clients pay for. Yext Inc has no special access, but assume everything you publish openly gets collected.
Why Is Yext Inc Visiting My Website?
A client of Yext is monitoring your market, your brand, or you specifically. Expect Yext Inc's visits to concentrate on pages with business value, like pricing and product pages.
How Can I Tell if Yext Inc Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Yext Inc visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Yext Inc". Look for repeated visits to pricing, product, and news pages. Keep in mind that Yext Inc doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.