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Re: Huge Spike in Traffic from Direct Internet Explorer visitors - nearly100% bounce rate, stays for only one minute
PPC_Guru
Feb 27, 2012 4:04 PM
Posted in group:
Google Analytics
Categories:
Discuss Tracking and Implementation issues
:
This is a bit of a long shot... but here is a
robots.txt whitelist
:
http://db.tt/wd4WUCKp
If
this
is server monitoring service (rather than malware), then there is a
chance that
it might obey the
User-agent: * Disallow: /
Robots.txt file to upload to root:
http://db.tt/wd4WUCKp
Note1: change yourdomain within Sitemap:
http://www
.
yourdomain
.com/sitemap.xml
Note2:
www.facebook.com/robots.txt
also uses a robots.txt whitelist.
Thanks
Phil.
Also, here are more examples of robot spider-traps...
http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/58822-Prevent-referrer-spam-block-bad-bots-from-stealing-bandwith
http://danzcontrib2.free.fr/en/pieges.php#bloquer
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