: How can I prevent bad bots from clicking on my advertisers' ads? I have a website where I create ads for clients. They are not Adwords or similar, they are custom ads I create. All ad links
I have a website where I create ads for clients. They are not Adwords or similar, they are custom ads I create. All ad links go through a count-clicker before being sent to the advertiser's url (ex. example.com/countclicks.cfm?adid=671). I'm trying to figure out the best way to block any bot from "clicking" on the ads to prevent false click-through counts.
In addition, it would be NICE if the advertiser can still get SEO link value as our website has a high Page Rank, which is why I'd rather not use "nofollow". This would be lovely but my first priority is to get rid of the "fake" clicks by bots.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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Try banning them thru robots.txt
If the bots don't listen then just use some sort of IP logger (with a notice saying you are using one for quality assurance or something like that), capture the ones that appear to be "bad bots" and firewall ban them.
I had this same problem at one time on my MediaWiki website.I downloaded a standalone PHP script. And that solved these bad bots from clicking on my advertisers' ads by IP range banning Bad Bots with a code that only bots can see and click on. Visit perishablepress.com/blackhole-bad-bots/
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