Bots by company
Moz bots and crawlers
Moz runs an SEO software suite including Link Explorer and Moz Pro site crawls.
Moz bots at a glance
- Moz runs 2 bots listed in this directory.
- They belong to: SEO Tool Crawlers.
- Each Moz bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: moz.com
Every Moz bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DotBot | SEO Tool Crawlers | Search indexProduct featureOfficial docs | Yes | Your choice |
| rogerbot | SEO Tool Crawlers | Product featureOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Moz bots
The rules below name every Moz token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Moz bots
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Moz bots
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: rogerbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Moz bots out of private areas only
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Moz bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(DotBot|rogerbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Moz bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (DotBot|rogerbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "DotBot") or (http.user_agent contains "rogerbot")See which of these bots actually reach your website
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