Bot traffic now makes up over half of web traffic and continues to be a struggle that seems to be increasingly difficult to deal with...Websites are constantly bombarded by ever increasingly clever bots that serve no other purpose than to direct web traffic to sites that pay these bot suppliers for every click they get from new traffic even if that traffic is unaware, not a potential customer, disinterested in the sites content....It's a game of numbers that is driven blindly by dubious mathematics and ignorant customers...and we are all the victims....
http://www.supremetrafficbot.com/
Now with AI coming on line and an ever increasing capability to mimic human conversation by these devious bots, we seem to be put in a position that seems indefensible as a help site to the public....Destined to be holding one sided conversations with machines that make little sense or don't respond at all...Separating the real from the artificial would seem simple enough in theory, what we need is a plan, a tripwire that exposes a bot....Ah yes the register with email before you can post strategy...How long would this work, or will it even work at all....We must look to the future, the future when conversations with machines become legitimate inquiries for knowledge, yes that day is coming.....
The good bots vs the bad bots....
https://www.incapsula.com/blog/bot-traffic-report-2015.html
Their uses have grown more sophisticated with time, they are being used to influence prices by bidding on items for sale online....so beware you may be bidding against a phantom....
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3070022/internet/half-the-webs-traffic-comes-from-bots-and-thats-costing-you-more-than-you-think.html
Analytic tools...
http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2015/04/01/eliminating-bot-traffic-from-google-analytics-once-and-for-all/
The War of Humans Against Robots has Begun
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