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Hi guys,
in OpenSiteExplorer -> Top Pages, there are no page titles displayed in a raport for certain domain, and "HTTP Status" column shows: "Blocked by robots.txt".
I tried to find out what the ID of Moz crawling bot is, and on this page: http://moz.com/community/q/seomoz-spider-bot-details someone says it's: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rogerBot/1.0; http://www.seomoz.org/dp/rogerbot).
However, my robots.txt doesn't have such entry. Take a look:
Automatically banned scanners and crawlers section
User-agent: 008
Disallow: /
user-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: metajobbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Exabot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Ezooms
Disallow: /
User-agent: fyberspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MojeekBot
Disallow: /
Section end
What could be the problem here, then? Why does the Moz bot think I'm blocking it?
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Thank you Keri, problem solved.
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If you pull out dotbot from your exclusions, you should be fine.
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