Website Development

Simple ways to keep bad bots away from your website

What are Bots? Bots and spiders are mostly harmless. For instance, you want Google’s bot to crawl and index your website. However, can occasionally cause issues and bring in unwanted traffic. According to Incapsula’s research on bot traffic, “Bot visits are up 21% to represent 61.5% of total website traffic.” Although there are many different types of internet bots, a significant amount of this traffic is caused by bad bots that have malicious intentions. Therefore you  need to keep bad bots away from your website What is a Good Bot? Bots are not all bad. In truth, Googlebots are our […]