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Old 01-27-2016, 07:22 PM  
Serge Litehead
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Originally Posted by olivierx View Post
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.
great idea. but since you shared it you may need to adjust the strategy later on, especially when more sites integrate it. bot runners may be able to come around this somehow
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