![]() I don't recommend going to any of these bot URLs, as it's likely that these sites are using tracking to look at which webmasters are actually engaging / researching where the traffic is coming from. After seeing traffic from the bot source, a marketer will go to the URL and be redirected to a Epsilon or another traffic selling competitor. So the game is the same, rules are slightly different. These messages will include a link to a website, where you can purchase new followers, who won't unfollow you for at least ONE WEEK! This type of spam advertising is more often attributed to social sites such as Instagram, where over a day or a few days, an account will get multiple followers, which have "free traffic" or "followers" directly in their user name, or via a direct message to yourself. Who wouldn't want to see their website traffic going up, this is exactly why this type of advertising works. This addiction of always wanting more, and being able to get instant satisfaction is why this type of advertising might actually work. It's often said, that with every spike of visitor traffic, a marketer gets a small jolt of adrenaline. If there is a traffic spike, they will want to know which one of their Facebook campaigns or dances on TikTok drove that traffic, and how they can get more visitors with the smallest amount of effort. What would be the point of sending large amounts of bot traffic to a website? For webmasters, small business owners, web analysts, marketers, or maybe those who are just bored and want something to do, they watch their web analytics like a hawk. Wait, you're telling me that someone is sending me thousands of fake visits as an advertising campaign? This isn't the first time they've done this either, I've found multiple sites who have flagged this company doing similar traffic spike campaigns over the past year. Most likely not, it actually looks to be an Advertising Campaign, launched by a company we'll call "Epsilon Visitors". The bot that I'm referring to is known as Bottraffic.live, but it's not the only known bot that was launched on that date, we've seen and heard from others that traffic is being sent by many other sources, including: Those sites received anywhere from a few hundred, to over 10K "visitors" in a single day. If you’re struggling with bot traffic or you’d like help setting up this segment or filter, get in touch – we’re always happy to help.On Jan 30th 2020 another bot was launched into the wild, sending website traffic to thousands, tens of thousands, potentially more websites globally. It’s also important to ensure you’ve ticked the box in your view settings to exclude all known bots as this will protect you against the most common attacks. TRAFFICBOT LIVE UPDATEOf course, there may be other similar attacks in future so you may need to update the filter at a later date. ![]() With this in place, you won’t see any more hits from /trafficbot.life or /bot-traffic.icu. ![]() ![]() If you haven’t yet experienced this type of bot traffic but you’d like to protect yourself against it – set up a filter for your Google Analytics view based on the Request URI – to remove any hits that include /trafficbot.life or /bot-traffic.icu. How do I prevent /trafficbot.life from appearing in Google Analytics? All is not lost, however, because if you want to analyse data from a time period which includes this spam traffic, you can create a Segment to exclude it: Once data has been processed, it cannot be edited or deleted. If it’s already hit your Google Analytics account, it’s too late. How do I remove /trafficbot.life from Google Analytics? There is absolutely no value to doing this whatsoever – the reality is that this spam bot traffic is just a pain in the ass that’s messed with your data. Why? I guess they want you to visit their website and buy some more fake traffic from them. Long story short, it’s a bot which automates a process to ping hits to your Google Analytics account populating your reports with a URL. What is /trafficbot.life and how did it get in my Google Analytics reports? ![]() There’s a good chance you experienced it too, if you’re reading this. They weren’t alone – lots of people reported similar issues on the Google Analytics support forums. One of the most common issues we saw came from /trafficbot.life and /bot-traffic.icu appearing in the Site Content reports of our clients. There was a significant surge in bot traffic in Google Analytics from 31st January to 2nd February 2021. ![]()
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