Benefits Of Blocking Unwanted
Bots
- Reduced bandwidth costs
- Reduced server load from illegitimate
traffic
- Stop email scrapers
- Stop image scrapers
- Stop copy scrapers
- Stop snoopers!
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What
kinds of bots should I block and why?
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Site Downloading Bots : Bots that
download all content found on the target site
Why should I block these bots?
This type of bot also known as an "Offline Browsing Bot" will download
your entire site including all images and other media. This type of
bot will waste bandwidth, server resources and slow down your site.
Media Harvesting Bots : Bots that seek and download all media files
from target sites
Why should I block these bots?
Media bots will crawl your site and download all media types specified
by the user. Users will never see your site as intended and will
easily bypass any type of products or other revenue generating
portions of your site. Media bots waste bandwidth and steal your
content without any benefit to the site owner.
Email Harvesting Spam Bots : Bots that seek any email address found
on the target site for spam use
Why should I block these bots?
Email "Spam" bots crawl your web site in search of email addresses
which can be used for spam. These bots are a complete waste of
bandwidth and server resources offer no benefit to site owners. These
should always be blocked.
Surveillance Bots : Bots that crawl your site looking for certain
types of content/media
Why should I block these bots?
This type of bot is specifically engineered to gather information for
varios purposes of which your website does not necessarily receive any
benefit.
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