We are using Hotlink Protection on our server for jpg mostly. What is moz.com address to allow crawl access?

[sergeywin1]

We are using Hotlink Protection on our server for jpg mostly. What is moz.com crawl url address so we can allow it in the list of allowed domains? The reason is that the crawl statistics gives our a ton of 403 Forbidden errors.

Thanks.

[Peterli]

Hi there!

Thanks for reaching out to us!  I can certainly understand your need to have our crawler be accepted into your link protection program.  Unfortunately our crawler doesn't operate using a url to crawl your site, we use a collections of IP addresses behind the scenes to mimic a search engine crawler to provide the best diagnoses around.  With that said, a lot of our customer has had some success allowing our crawler on their server level through either their HTTP access file or other methods.  Unfortunately I am not a Web developer or a server admin, so I couldn't exactly let you know how to implement it. I would recommend you to perhaps change up your question and post a new question regarding some work around for your software.

Thanks for your time, I hope that helps.

Peter
Moz Help Team.