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Moz dotbot

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Dotbot is Moz's web crawler, it gathers web data for the Moz Link Index. This data we collect through Dotbot is available in the Links section of your Moz Pro campaign, Link Explorer, and the Moz Links API. Operated by Moz.

GoodBot
Assessment
SEO
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Moz dotbot?

Moz dotbot is a web crawler operated by Moz. Dotbot is Moz's web crawler, it gathers web data for the Moz Link Index. This data we collect through Dotbot is available in the Links section of your Moz Pro campaign, Link Explorer, and the Moz Links API.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
Moz dotbot
Operator
Moz
Category
SEO
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
dotbot
User-agent patterns
DotBot
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, [email protected])
Main use cases
SEO analysisBacklink discoverySearch ranking monitoring

Why it crawls your site

Moz dotbot crawls websites to analyze search engine optimization factors and backlinks. It is operated by Moz as part of their SEO analysis infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Moz dotbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for DotBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Moz dotbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Moz dotbot full access
User-agent: DotBot
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows DotBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Moz's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Related bots

Other crawlers operated by Moz.

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Links & references

Moz documentation
moz.com/link-explorer
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Cloudflare Radar: Moz dotbot
radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/dotbot
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

CloudflareRadar
Last updated July 26, 2026