ZoomBot
SEOZoom web crawler for SEO analysis
About this crawler
ZoomBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ZoomBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ZoomBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.52%
Technical details
- Name
- ZoomBot
- Pattern
ZoomBot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.seozoom.it/bot/
- Added
- 2018/10/10
- rDNS suffixes
.zoom.us- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely ZoomBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.zoom.us
Sample User-Agent strings
ZoomBot (Linkbot 1.0 http://suite.seozoom.it/bot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ZoomBot:
User-agent: ZoomBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ZoomBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ZoomBot") {
return 403;
}
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