DotBot
Crawls for Moz's link index (the data behind Domain Authority).
| robots.txt token | DotBot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | Documented by Moz |
| Our recommendation | Your call — Same trade as AhrefsBot and SemrushBot. |
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