bots IP address

[PaullasPaullas is verified member.]

do bots have set IP address? if they do can you put them in a db to block bots from clicking affiliate links, or is this not advisable.

 

[namestrands]

I believe Google actually requests that you actively monitor your sites traffic and filter out as much as you can. I read a post on the adsense blog about this the other day.

I wrote a script that connects into an API for a database of suspect IP it then disables links or displaying google ads.

 

[mogulmedia]

do bots have set IP address? if they do can you put them in a db to block bots from clicking affiliate links, or is this not advisable.

Yes if you use an affilaite program like EPN which uses a CPC based program, you should definitely block as many bots as possible as they will deminish the quality of clicks and therefore the value of click.

For a program like Amazon Ass it shouldn't really matter as you're paid on products sold.

Get a current list of bots from Google and add them to your robots.txt file in this format to block single known bots:

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /search/*/feed
Disallow: /search/*/*

Or add this to block them all:

# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /