Hi. My blog is being regularly attacked by a spam bot of the same person from California with ever n
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he doesn’t look at anything, there are no page views only 138 more or less visits. I know this from statcounter analysis. Does WordPress have a way to stop such bots, as they are trying to spam my site in ordr to bring down my SEO rankings. Tks!
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Hi there,
There is no way to prevent a bot from viewing your site, just like there is no way to prevent a person with an internet connection from accessing your site.
On WordPress.com we don’t display visits from bots in your stats, but only count a view when someone physically opens your site in their browser. I don’t see anything unusual about the numbers appearing on your stats page.
Statcounter.com is not our service, though, and we have no control over how they count traffic to your site. As a result, that site might display different numbers than we display on the WordPress.com stats page, especially if that service also counts visits generated by bots.
I’m not sure what you mean by SEO. Bots visiting your site won’t have any effect on your SEO as there’s no possible way for search engines to monitor that. What can affect your SEO is bad backlinks, but those you can block in Google’s and Bing’s webmaster consoles so they won’t count against you. There is also no way to prevent another site from linking to yours.
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Thank you Timethief! And thank you Kokkieh!
Repeated visits without page viewing do bring down your SEO.
So I guess there is no remedy.
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Repeated visits without page viewing do bring down your SEO.
And how would search engines track this? To track views to your site they would need to install code on your site to see when it is visited, and there is no way for them to do that.
All search engines can track is how often someone clicks a link to your site if it shows up in search results, and how many times other sites on the internet link to your site, and neither of that is in our control.
The only way Google can track the traffic on your site is if you have Google Analytics, which you can only use if you have the Business Plan. And then you can filter out bot traffic in Google’s control panel, in other words, you can tell Google not to track it, in the same way we already don’t track bot traffic to your site. But it still won’t block bots from visiting your site.
But there’s no way to block bot traffic on any public site on the web. The only way to block bots completely is to set your site to private so only you can see it.
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