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What user agent is used by SEOMOZ crawler?
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We have a pretty tight robots.txt file in place to only allow the major search engines. I do not want to block SEOMOZ.ORG from being able to crawl the site so I want to make sure the user agent is open.
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Hi Eric,
The useragent of SEOMoz is: rogerbot.
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