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Originally Posted by ipolic
<rant_mode>I am thinking for last 2 hours to write here or not, because probably all what I will read in posts below will be newb comments and post whore messages, but I still decided to give it a go. </rant_mode>
Basically I was working on project (not relevant to adult) and I was struck by this brilliant idea.
What is the biggest traffic related issue in industry? How to filter out (detect) sites who send you hitbot(bot nets) traffic. I don't speak about old bots which average script and couple jquery tricks can stop, but about advanced, malware infected browsers, visiting your website in background, not clicking on ads (some even do that) but at the end -> not buying anything.
My idea is simple, I tested it and it works. It analyses traffic stream from one source and compares it to others, when you see difference in value, YOU KNOW that site is sending you bot traffic. Bigger the difference, more bots they send. Basically it compares some values from 1 site to values of averages from other sites, and no it is not cookies, javascript, country, proxy and other things any half decent nowaday bot can "hijack".
Does anyone have any smart idea what to do with discovery? How to monetize it? Offer it as service or sell it to someone? I know it would be best to give it away for free + give you free 500 bucks on paxum for whores, but guess what, that's not gonna happen. Anyone interested to make me an offer I cannot refuse for my discovery?
Broker networks, huge tube sites or anyone else who deals with large pool of traffic can have HUGE benefit of this!
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I managed to find a better, more simple method to detect bot traffic. Nowdays most malware infected traffic are clicking on site, clicking on ads therefor acting 'normal'
The best, most simple way i found to find out which site are sending bot traffic.
You put a transparant image on top of your site before all links, in the corner, so that no one normally click it, you make it clickable. should go to any page where the only way to go is this transparent image. You setup so that it record every ip of who visit this page, record the referrer, you search the ip/referer on your stats to find out where the hit come from.
Usiung this system i am able to block most of the bad source from traffic exchange. Of course its not good proof enough to ban someone from a traffic network, but, its enough proof for me to filter his traffic out of my sites.