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Determine how much you need bots to access your website. If you don't need them then block them. This will kill you if you are reliant upon AD revenue. On my
by austin-cheney 2y ago
Determine how much you need bots to access your website. If you don't need them then block them. This will kill you if you are reliant upon AD revenue.
On my personal site I started blocking bots and also set a "noindex, nofollow" rule to block web crawlers and search bots too. I noticed no change in traffic and still do about 10,000 visits a month.
- TZubiri 2y agoThis may surprise you, but some bots don't respect robots.txt
- austin-cheney 2y agoNo, but you can identify and block them by other means, such as redirecting bots to an empty page on your web server or blocking them from your router.
- TZubiri 2y agobut how do you identify them?
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoThere's various tricks that can help narrow the criteria, but one that seems particularly good is to put paths no human user would ever find or traverse in robots.txt disallow. Ban anything that visits that path.