Bot Information for Moz dotbot Verified

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.

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AccessIndicates who drives the bot's activity. Bots with "direct" access are controlled directly by their operator, while bots with "intermediary" access can be controlled by end users.
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)
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User-Agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

HTTP traffic from Moz dotbot

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HTTP requests from the specified bot over the selected time period

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