rogerbot

seo rogerbot

Moz RogerBot web crawler for analysis

About this crawler

rogerbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern rogerbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block rogerbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.59%

latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: rogerbot

Technical details

Name: rogerbot
Pattern: rogerbot
Tags: seo
Reference: https://moz.com/help/moz-procedures/crawlers/rogerbot
Added: 2014/02/28
rDNS suffixes: .dotbot.com, .moz.com, .rogerbot.com
Instances: 13 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely rogerbot 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.

.dotbot.com
.moz.com
.rogerbot.com

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; UrlCrawler; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot)

rogerbot/1.0 (http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot-, [email protected])

rogerbot/1.0 (http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot-, [email protected]

rogerbot/1.0 (http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot-, [email protected])

rogerbot/1.0 (http://www.moz.com/dp/rogerbot, [email protected])

rogerbot/1.0 (http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot, [email protected])

rogerbot/1.1 (http://moz.com/help/guides/search-overview/crawl-diagnostics#more-help, [email protected])

rogerbot/1.2 (http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot-, [email protected])

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow rogerbot:

User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} rogerbot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "rogerbot") { return 403; }

← back to all crawlers