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: How to detect search engine bots reliably within asp.net website? What is the best way to detect bot generated activity (clicks/page visits) etc on a asp.net website? We have a website where

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What is the best way to detect bot generated activity (clicks/page visits) etc on a asp.net website? We have a website where we track leads generated to external websites, we track the IP of the user that generates the lead however we are seeing a lot of leads generated by Google and other search bots. What is the best way to filter this activity. I have heard of testing user agent strings and filtering based on know IP addresses, both available as data dumps from various sources, I am not sure which is the best one to use.

Thank you.

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@Moriarity557

Like @Kinopiko said, Bots, esepcialy the top ones like google, or bing leave a clear UserAgent.

I don't know what your code looks like so I can't tell you what to do but to find the UserAgent in Asp.Net you look at Request.UserAgent in any WebForm, CodeBehind, or MVC Controller.

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