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Bots Bots and more Bots

Everyday for the past two weeks Clicky has been recording bot hits from the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Armenia, Tbilisi Georgia and Kazakhstan and all the referrers are showing google.com [secure search]

Any idea when you might get these bots filtered out?

Posted Thu Sep 25 2014 4:18p by pipwi***


Go to the raw log file of your site, extract all IPs, use Smartwhois to tell you which servers they are using and ban the whole IP ranges for these servers. I did that on my site, I actually have 240+ ip ranges banned.
And I have also an extremely complete .htaccess and robot.txt.
I don't see any solution.
Clicky just adds "make-up" by hiding these bots. But on a simple site, their traffic can be 200 visits per day!
Hope it helps

Posted Fri Sep 26 2014 12:57a by x5f***


@x5fx: Clicky in NO WAY blocks bots from accessing your website. They just don't count them (them being the ones they are aware of. New bots get created daily in the thousands) in your statistics.

Posted Fri Sep 26 2014 4:56a by ringo***


Well I know Clicky doesn't block bots from your site Clicky just does analytics , but I would like to see them better filter the spam bots out from being counted seeing that it messes up you real human traffic stats.

Posted Fri Sep 26 2014 6:50a by pipwi***


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