GozleBot User Agent: Gozle Search Engine Crawler

01 · Operator

Who operates GozleBot

Company: Doly Horjun HJ (Gozle)
Type: Search engine crawler
Official docs: gozle.com.tm

02 · Behavior

What GozleBot does

GozleBot crawls web pages for the Gozle search engine index. The search engine serves content in the Turkmen language.

03 · Impact

Why GozleBot matters for your site

If you allow it

Visibility in the Gozle search engine
Useful if you target users in Turkmenistan

If you block it

Little traffic for sites outside its region
Saves crawl load

04 · Allow

How to allow GozleBot

robots.txt

User-agent: GozleBot
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "GozleBot")
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: GozleBot
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "GozleBot") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GozleBot [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block GozleBot

Start with robots.txt. If GozleBot keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.

robots.txt

User-agent: GozleBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "GozleBot")
Action:     Block

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: GozleBot
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GozleBot") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GozleBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for GozleBot

The user agent published by the operator:

GozleBot; http://gozle.com.tm

07 · Verification

Is it really GozleBot?

GozleBot’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 GozleBot

What is GozleBot?

It is the web crawler of the Gozle search engine at gozle.com.tm.

How do I block GozleBot?

Add user-agent: GozleBot with Disallow: / to robots.txt. Whether it honors this is not documented.

GozleBot is Doly Horjun HJ (Gozle)’s search engine crawler