#SPIDER DOTBOT SOFTWARE#

What is Moz? Moz is an Inbound Marketing company that creates analytics software for online marketers. I make requests to a site for Moz’s Crawl Diagnostics reports, the Freshscape index, and Open Site Explorer's Just-Discovered links tab.

#SPIDER DOTBOT HOW TO#

Moz helps people learn about their site and teaches them how to fix problems that might be affecting their rankings. * waves * I help teach the team at Moz how to build the most respectful and polite web crawler possible. This has come to your server for legitimate reasons you may have used Moz used to be called SEOmoz they are the most whitehat company I know of. Now I will explain what I am talking about. Its not a bad bot everything you guys are talking about is legit not people trying to rip you off. You can contact us at help moz.com 10:04 PM If you want to ban dotbot from most areas of your site, it looks a little something like this: User-agent: dotbot Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /scripts/ Disallow: /images/ If you want to ban dotbot from crawling any part of your site, add this text instead: User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / Questions? We will be happy to answer any further questions you have. If you would like to block dotbot, all you need to do is add our user-agent string to your robots.txt file.

#SPIDER DOTBOT FREE#

Members of our free online marketing community have limited access, too! How to block DotBot from crawling your site If you don't want dotbot crawling your site, we always respect the standard Robots Exclusion Protocol (aka robots.txt). It’s good to keep in mind that you need a Moz Analytics account to access most of the information I gather. When this happens, the user-agent, ‘dotbot,’ is used to identify our crawler.

Some of our tools, like Open Site Explorer, require us to crawl websites. To see an example of the type of data we collect, enter a URL in the search box on. The data we collect through DotBot is surfaced on this site, in Moz tools, and is also available via the Mozscape API. Our goal is to make the Internet more open and transparent by crawling the web and publishing the link graph. Mozilla/5.0 (compatible DotBot/1.1, (compatible Ezooms/1.0 (compatible Ezooms/1.0 if you look in there whois you will see if you go there it takes you to a very clear explanation as to how to block this DotBot is the crawler that Moz uses to crawl the web. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible MSIE 6.0 Windows NT 5.1 SV1) Lookup IP In: Domain Tools | SpamHaus | Spamcop | SenderBase | Google Groups | Google Geographic LocationĪpproximately 12 years, 2 months, 4 weeks ago If you know something about this IP, please leave a comment. It's possible that this IP is just a harmless web spider or Internet user. However, none of its visits have resulted in any bad events yet. This IP addresses has been seen by at least one Honey Pot.

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