01 · Operator
Who operates Ezooms
- Company
- SEOmoz (now Moz)
- Type
- SEO tool crawler
02 · Behavior
What Ezooms does
Ezooms crawled websites and identified itself only with a Gmail contact address. Bot databases list it as a crawler with SEOmoz as producer. No official documentation from Moz was found.
03 · Impact
Why Ezooms matters for your site
If you allow it
- Can feed link data into SEO tools
If you block it
- No direct traffic
- Undocumented by its operator
04 · Allow
How to allow Ezooms
robots.txt
User-agent: Ezooms
Allow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Ezooms")
Action: Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules
# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.WordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Ezooms
Allow: /nginx
# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "Ezooms") { return 403; }Apache
# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Ezooms [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]05 · Block
How to block Ezooms
Start with robots.txt. If Ezooms keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.
robots.txt
User-agent: Ezooms
Disallow: /Cloudflare
# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "Ezooms")
Action: BlockWordPress
# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: Ezooms
Disallow: /nginx
# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Ezooms") {
return 403;
}Apache
# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Ezooms [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>06 · User agents
User agents we see for Ezooms
The user agent published by the operator:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Ezooms/1.0; ezooms.bot@gmail.com)07 · Verification
Is it really Ezooms?
Ezooms’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.
FAQ
Questions about Ezooms
Who operates Ezooms?
The Matomo device-detector database attributes it to SEOmoz, Inc. (Moz). Moz has no public page about it.
How do I block Ezooms?
Add "User-agent: Ezooms" followed by "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt, or block the user agent on your server.
Last reviewed Oct 8, 2026