A bot is a software that is program to do a certain task. They are automated, which mean they are program to run automatically which a human to physically sent them out. They require less effect and faster than a human to do it.
They usually operate over a network, more than half of the internet traffic are bot scanning content, chatting with users and interacting with webpages. Some bots are useful, but some are bad.
For example, good bots are bots that are useful such as search engines bots that index content for search or customers service bots that help users in their enquirers.
All these bots are good as they are generally want to do good and serve user information that you are looking for and needs you are looking for.
Other bad bots are program to break into user accounts, or even scan the internet for user’s contact and personal information for sending spam or performing malicious activities with that information obtain. If you are connected to the internet, a bot is able to associated the IP address.
In addition, Bad bots are bad things that can cause your cost per click to be wrong and CPC being pushed up wasting precious advertising dollars. There are also download bots which are similar but download instead of clicking it. Not forgetting bots that impost to be a certain company or user.
In conclusion, bot management solution is important, to sort out harmful bot activity from user activity, and helpful bot activity via machine learning. Cloudflare is one of the companies that help in bot management, help in identifying the bad bot without interrupting on user experiences or blocking the good bots.
Share with me some of your experiences with Bots, be it good or bad.
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10/10 Followed! Looking forward to the new post! Information made simple to read. Thank you.
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Thanks for the comment! Happy that you found it relatable and easy to read and understand. (:
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Thank you! 😊
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Wow I didn’t that there is such thing till I saw this blog, thanks for the information!
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Thank you for your comment and im glad you found it useful and insightful.
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I didn’t realised that there were so many specific and different types of bots as well as terminologies. After this read, it has definitely given me more insights towards the kind of bots that are available and used in our current society.
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Thank you for comment Dom!
Glad that you found this blog post insightful!
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Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you for dropping by and reading it!
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This is an interesting read thanks for being so informative!
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Thank you for finding it interesting! Happy that you enjoy it!
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Interesting read! But why do bad bot exist? Are they created with the intention to breach user’s privacy?
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Thank you for dropping by! There are hacker out there that create bad bots to act as good bots.
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Article is very informative and provides great examples on the different types of bots.
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thank you for enjoying the post!
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