![]() A rate limiting solution can detect and prevent bot traffic originating from a single IP address, although this will still overlook a lot of malicious bot traffic. But it should be noted that only good bots will abide by the rules in robots.txt it will not prevent malicious bots from crawling a website.Ī number of tools can help mitigate abusive bot traffic. This is a file that provides instructions for bots crawling the page, and it can be configured to prevent bots from visiting or interacting with a webpage altogether. The first step to stopping or managing bot traffic to a website is to include a robots.txt file. I have a great article from Cloudflare (a widely used website infrastructure platform) on this topic:Īnd here is a quote on the topic of managing bot traffic from that article: How can websites manage bot traffic? This is not something we are able to provide as each store is unique and requires it's own setup. ![]() The most accurate solutions are for businesses to look into advanced software for their website that uses machine learning to recognize and stop bot traffic. I know that it would be great if we had a way to stop bot traffic on your store, but regardless of the platform or website host, there is no easy way to do so. Have you contacted the app developer about this and let them know that you are not able to use their app because of this pricing structure and the type of traffic your store is receiving? You can contact them directly through the app listing page in our app store to let them know and hopefully the developer will be able to assist you in a pricing plan that works for your business and site. I can definitely see how having inflated bot traffic could be detrimental to an app that charges on that type of structure. Hi appreciate the feedback you shared here about your experience with an app that charges based on traffic. If you have any additional questions about your store analytics, please let me know. If you don't have GA setup on your store yet, you can see the steps for that here: Google Analytics. I am not familiar enough with GA to say for sure if this is supported in conjunction with Shopify, but it is definitely worth looking into. I know that Google Analytics has options to block bot traffic from your analytic reports. I know that this isn't always ideal as it can bloat your analytics. There is no specific harm in this and seeing small spikes created by bot traffic is totally normal. ![]() Because your website is public facing it is open to traffic by both customers and bots alike. You can restrict access to your store based on IP address, which means customers from certain countries might not be able to see your store but this can be circumvented by using a VPN. If the traffic you are seeing is created by bots, it is not possible to completely block them. Specifically, these sections (bottom left) of your analytics dashboard in your store admin. If you are concerned that the traffic you are seeing in your store analytics is created by bots, you can usually confirm this based on the referrer URL or source that the traffic came from. I understand that you are concerned about bots crawling your site, this is a normal concern for many merchants and I can provide a bit more information on this for you. Hi you for reaching out to the community forums with your concerns about a traffic spike on your store and where that traffic is coming from. ![]()
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