What is DotBot?
Moz · SEO · class seo
Moz link index.
Verdict: Charge it; it is a commercial product built on your pages.
Profile
Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON
| Operator | Moz · moz.com |
|---|---|
| Purpose | SEO and backlink crawlers. Commercial indexes sold to marketers. Blocking them hides you from their customers, not from Google. |
| User-agent contains | dotbot |
| robots.txt | User-agent: dotbotDisallow: / |
| How to verify | No published verification method. Treat the name as a claim, not proof. |
| Should you block it? | Charge it; it is a commercial product built on your pages. |
| Does it pay? | No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing. |
| Docs | https://moz.com/help/moz-procedures/crawlers/dotbot |
Observed on the network
Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.
No sightings reported yet. DotBot appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.
Do something about it
- See it in your own logs, verify it, and charge, allow or block it by name with the free Pay-per-Crawl plugin (WordPress, Python, JavaScript, Go, PHP).
- Run this crawler? Publish a crawler-profile.json on your domain and this page shows your declared profile with a verified badge.
- Machine-readable twin: /bots/dotbot/profile.json (free in a browser). Machines: POST
{"slug":"dotbot"}to x402.forgemesh.io/bot-profiles, $0.005 per call over x402.
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