What To Do About the Bots/Fake Clicks Surge ?

We all been seeing the crazy surge of Bad and fake clicks , Either coming from Dodgy clicks sellers or from Bots hitting certain links online … and many other ways …

I use Clickmagick , so i will refer to it as the filtering and blocking tool in this pot.

Most Solo ads sellers and traffic providers that use Clickmagick Filtering option , Now is called Flag.

Flag – Flagging will send these clicks through your link or rotator as normal, but their clicks counts will be separated from your main stats. You can view these clicks any time by clicking on the number in the FC column.

Clicks from “Abusers” are flagged for 24 hours after their last abusive click. All other types of clicks are flagged indefinitely.

Block – This will block the click from being processed, and the “click” will be sent to a generic error page. You can view blocked clicks on the Public Stats page of any link, or the Shared Stats page of any rotator URL.

So Flagged Clicks are till processed and they are circulating around , till they start getting blocked.

Also Flagged Clicks are counted towards Your Clickmagick plan , and if you have allot of Flagged clicks hitting your account , you are paying for it.

Solution , from within Clickmagick, is pretty Simple and Obvious , if you want to stop those clicks and send your clients Good Clean Clicks , They Should Be Blocked not Flagged … BLOCK THEM ALL !!

Those Bots Are Still Going through your Blocking filters in Clickmagick !
No System is perfect, and clickmagick isn’t far from that! Millions of new Fake clicks, Bots Server Clicks are produced every minute !

So let’s take one more step to block as much as we can from those bad clicks, Bots, Servers …

Block the spamming user-agent in your robots.txt file!

I know, I know, this whole thing quickly spirals into the annoyingly tech-y realm of nerd that most website owners probably want to avoid. But it’s not that Complicated.

In an effort to start controlling fake traffic I have added the following major spammers to .htaccess file, .htaccess is located in your main site directory.

Open Your .htaccess file and add the following :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.amazonaws.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^..compute-1.amazonaws.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^http://.amazonaws.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^www.amazonaws.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “AISearchBot” [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “woriobot” [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “heritrix” [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “NetSeer” [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} “Nutch” [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.)$ – [F]

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from amazonaws.com
Deny from hosting.com
Deny from 72.21.206.80
Deny from 72.21.210.29
Deny from 207.171.166.22
Deny from 67.59.185.59

end code. bye bye bots 🙂

Now if You cant access .htaccess and dont know what to do and where to go … and if You use Word Press, there a pretty nice plug in that will fix that for you.

Install plugin: WP htaccess Control

Click on Custom .htaccess Tab and Paste the Code Provided above.

Click on ” Save all changes” And You are Done !

Now This isn’t going to fix and block all back clicks 100% ! nothing will ever will .. /but combined with clickmagick Blocking, or whatever tracking system you use with this method will block a big number of back clicks.

I hope this quick post helps a little bit cleaning those bad clicks that are going around Now.

More Posts Coming Soon to help clean and offer better services to our Solo ads Customers.

Cheers,

Mark