DotBot

Moz · SEO and backlink crawlers · json

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokendotbot
User-agent containsdotbot
OperatorMoz
CategorySEO and backlink crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Moz's crawler for Link Explorer. Moz documents that it respects robots.txt and that dotbot is the token to name.

What blocking it costs you

You leave Moz's link index, so Domain Authority and link reports about your site get thinner. Nothing a reader or an assistant sees changes.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.2; +https://opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot; help@moz.com)

Allow it instead

User-agent: dotbot
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://moz.com/help/moz-procedures/crawlers/dotbot
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-seo-tools