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DotBot

Crawls for Moz's link index (the data behind Domain Authority).

robots.txt tokenDotBot
Respects robots.txtYes
VerificationDocumented by Moz
Our recommendationYour call — Same trade as AhrefsBot and SemrushBot.

Block DotBot with robots.txt

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be DotBot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →

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