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About bot traffic

chervenkov

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This is another topic which bothers me:

We say there are a lot of bots in some traffic sources, placements etc. etc.

But there are bots and bots - "good bots" some of them are Google bots, SEO bots, data centers bots and they are with known IPs because you can find a lot sites with these information.

There are also "bad bots" - made for fraud leads, increase publisher profits etc.

Maybe there are some other bots too :)

When we know the good bots I think we can filter them in the beginning - not sure how you can add a thousands of IPs manually, but maybe like a file - I remember Zeropark had an option to add CSV file for blacklist - maybe via API, I don't know , because I'm not so deep inside this stuff yet but I'm sure it's possible and we can save some funds from the
 
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