A detailed Look At The Way You Can Combat The Rise Of The Bots In The Digital World
2015 was a year of jubilation among website owners and digital marketers since the bot traffic dropped below 50%. However, this joy was short lived since the next year brought a surge of bot activity that reached over 51.8%. This takes us closer to the Dark Ages, before the introduction of Humming Bird and before people had figured out the benevolence of the White Hat SEO. In 2016 and 2017 bad bot traffic has been a serious issue. For websites with fewer than ten human visitors per day, bot traffic comprised 93.3% of total traffic, and bad bots make up for 47.7% of the total bot traffic. In a recent survey, a leading website security company analyzed the traffic and performance of 100,000 randomly chosen websites in 2017. Out of them, almost 94.2% of them have experienced bot attacks in the observed time. This gives us an alarmingly accurate view of the highly insecure web environment most websites are in right now. The attackers have indiscriminately attacked sites without takin...