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Guests vs Bots

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    Guests vs Bots

    When you look at the number of guests online at a forum, how do you know which ones are reading the threads and which are just bots coming in from search engines?

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    LizAnne

    LizAnne

    Most forums have at least 100 bots on it at all time. This could be a good thing, especially if one of those bots belongs to Google as it means your site is being actively indexed at all times of the day and night.
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    Daniella

    Daniella

    Many times, you will get a quick influx of traffic via bots from Twitter when you update with a tweet. These are not real visitors though.
    10 years ago

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    Caitlin

    Caitlin

    Does every bot that visits your site have a recognizable name? Or, are they just identified as 'bots' in your stats?
    10 years ago

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