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Most of Your Traffic Is Human, Says comScore

Most of Your Traffic Is Human, Says comScore

By Josh Wolford February 6, 2015

Good news, everyone! Unless you’re one of the unlucky few publishers on the wrong end of the spectrum, chances are good that the vast majority of your traffic is living, breathing humans. Among the top 85% of publishers comScore looked …

Sniff Out Those Twitter Bots With Bot or Not Sniff Out Those Twitter Bots With Bot or Not
By · February 23, 2012

If you’re active on Twitter, you’ve probably encountered plenty of bots – fake users that spam the hell out of you with links, free iPad offers, and other dubious things. These accounts are just a part of the Twitter experience, …

Social Media
Much ado about Delicious robots
By · February 18, 2008

Bots arriving from Google, Ask.com, and MSN to sample pages on the bookmarking site Delicious hit a robots.txt block. As do Yahoo’s Slurp bots too. It’s no big deal.

Bots Take The Fun Out Of Online Poker
By · November 12, 2007 · 1 Comment

The government doesn’t need to kill online poker. Bots will do it for them. Feel like chancing your money with an arithmetic machine? Neither does anybody else.

Business
Fear The Bots For Quality Score
By · July 17, 2007

Since Google added a new layer of complexity to the AdWords system this year in the form of Quality Score, not a lot has been published about how it works or why it does a certain thing.

Search
Confusing Search Engine Bots?
By · April 3, 2007

There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked – discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content.

Search engines discover content using their bots (or ‘crawlers’), and determine relevancy (and by extension ranking) using advanced algorithms.

Search
Brand Protection vs. Link Baiting
By · January 23, 2007

Any publicity is good publicity…

Search
Brand Your Own AIM, But Add Value
By · March 6, 2006

AOL today is releasing its AOL Instant Messenger code to developers.

Search
Man DDoSed eBay With 20K Bots
By · December 28, 2005

The wheels of justice finally turned up a guilty verdict in a 2003 case where an Oregon man, working with others, used a 20,000 PC bot network to hit eBay with a DDoS attack.

Business
In The Newsletter
Bots, Aggregation and Content Creation
By · July 8, 2005

There is a helpful post of Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web that takes a balanced look at the topic of Bots and Content Creation / Aggregation.

Using mod_rewrite against stupid comment spam bots…
By · January 8, 2005

You’d think the comment spammers would be a bit smarter, but apparently not. Over 80% of all attempted spam hits on my site provide no HTTP Referer data.

Risky Tactics That Lure Search Bots Into Your Site
By · May 18, 2004

If you’ve got one or a few pages in Yahoo’s index but are having trouble getting more pages indexed one thing that might work is putting links to your deeper, unindexed pages high in the code of the pages that are indexed.

Search Bots Behaving Badly
By · May 12, 2004

In a classic bit of Internet history (1998/12/30), a newsgroup member explained the GoogleBot to a poster complaining of its rude behavior.

Foil the Bots – Bypass the Blocks!
By · March 20, 2003

Bypass the Blocks!

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