How do you deal with spam/bot traffic

[Grant]

What do you guys do when it comes to spam and bot traffic? Maybe the bots are hijacking the site, spamming comments and so on, or maybe the traffic comes and then goes right away. How do you deal with spam/bot traffic? What measures have you found that have worked for you in the past?

 

[dan2]

The easiest thing to do is to make sure you have a captcha on the site so the bots aren't as able to easily register. After that you could implement email verification so they have to click a link in an email to actually do anything. I don't think I've ever seen bots get past that. Only human spammers tend to go that far by verifying.

As a last method of defence, whilst it's time consuming, you can also manually moderate content yourself. It's slow but is obviously effective as you decide what you want published.

 

[Patrik]

bots aren't as able to easily register

this is still going to be exploited in some way, the only thing to avoid that is by doing manual registration approvals, it will take some time but it's efficient

 

[Ralphjoe]

Spam bot traffic are a nightmare for all sites administrators and for me I feel really annoyed when I see spambot traffic as they tend to hurts website a lot.

 

[Dowenship]

What do you guys do when it comes to spam and bot traffic? Maybe the bots are hijacking the site, spamming comments and so on, or maybe the traffic comes and then goes right away. How do you deal with spam/bot traffic? What measures have you found that have worked for you in the past?

Have not come to experience this case wherefore boys hijack the sure or spamming comment. Or probably I haven't noticed such experience.

 

[Lens]

I don't really have the technical know how on how to deal with bot traffic. But I guess it would rather spam the websites and that's not for the site.

 

[Adecyptii]

It seems to be annoying When one come across traffic,but seriously I don't know of any way of dealing with traffics,how is that possible,share with us.

 

[Kaffyfolla]

How to clean up the data:

1. Block the spambots: use . htaccess files or plugins.
2. Check the box in Google Analytics to block known spambots.
3. Set up filters in Google Analytics so that the false positives don't show if/when they get through.
4. Some hosting companies offer services to also block malicious traffic

 

[Blessedsam60]

Thanks for the update. The best advice is to have a capcha on the website so that the bot won't easily register and this will inturn help your technical system.
It seems to my babe, buy that's why you need a lot of research.

 

[Grandeur]

Using capt ha on the website would help deal with the bot ptobkebs but what about the spammers that aren't bots but just come on the website to leave traffic and go again

 

[Kane]

It is not possible to block spam bot traffic. If you are receiving spam traffic from a certain region, you can blog IP of that region and block spam traffic but this will also block genuine traffic from that region. If you focus more on getting organic traffic and referral traffic, you might in some weays minimize spam bot traffic

 

[glitch]

Spam gets automatically flagged. Not every time but 95% of the time with the built-in software of the forum I use. I don't really care about bot traffic. It matters more on blogs than forums.

 

[linux.poet]

Using capt ha on the website would help deal with the bot ptobkebs but what about the spammers that aren't bots but just come on the website to leave traffic and go again

I think using the Akismet plugin for Wordpress helps. This plugin catches spam posted by humans or bots and holds them for review, not allowing them to post items on your site until you approve them.

You can also delete the accounts that the spambots create. If I were in that situation I would try to look up the names of all of the major search engine bots and block bots that aren't those ones. That would hopefully stop the attack.

 

[Timgab]

If your disturbed by bots, I recommend you use means such as utilizing bot detection tools that can identify and block known bots and automated scripts.