zombiemedia69
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You cant block every bot, but combining server rules, traffic filters, and monitoring helps keep most spammy or harmful visits out while letting genuine users in.
It is possible to completely block bot traffic to a new website?
- Thread starter savitaprasad
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- Apr 20, 2018
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You can reduce bot traffic, but you can’t completely block it.
Bad bots change IPs, user agents, and bypass filters.
You can only minimize, not eliminate, bot traffic.
AmericanFlagMask
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you can reduce bot traffic with firewalls, CAPTCHAs, and rate limits, but some bots can still get through.
ancuabos88
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Not possible 100% you can protect your site with cloudflare free
Adya Walia
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You can reduce most bot traffic but can’t block 100% of it. Use a good WAF, rate-limiting, captcha on key endpoints, and block known bad IP ranges/user agents.
This cuts down the majority of automated hits, but some advanced bots will still slip through.
This cuts down the majority of automated hits, but some advanced bots will still slip through.
systemssoftwin
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yes but can't completely i assume .
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Completely blocking bot traffic to a new website is very challenging, but it is possible to significantly reduce or mitigatethe impact of bots. Bots constantly evolve, and new techniques are developed all the time, so achieving 100% prevention is practically impossible.
Gordon Ramsey
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Yes, it is possible to significantly reduce or block bot traffic to a new website by implementing measures such as using a Web Application Firewall (WAF), enforcing CAPTCHAs, restricting access via robots.txt, monitoring traffic behavior, and using IP filtering to block known malicious addresses.
jaykarbanda
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Why would you like to do that ? There are some bots like from google and seo tools also to monitor the site performance.
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Even if 100% block is not possible, I still want to block maximum bots.
Shahzad313
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Great question — is it truly possible to completely block bot traffic on a new website?
Your concern is valid. While you can significantly reduce automated hits using server-level filters, firewall rules, and behavioral detection, achieving a 100% bot-free environment is almost unrealistic. Advanced bots can spoof user agents, rotate IPs, and simulate real browser actions, making them difficult to distinguish from human visits.
Still, tightening your security stack early helps protect crawl budgets, analytics accuracy, and overall site performance.
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What do they achieve by sending bot traffic that too on own expense?
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Not completely you can significantly reduce bot traffic using methods like CAPTCHAs, robots.txt, firewall rules, bot detection services, and rate limiting, but it’s impossible to block 100% because sophisticated bots can mimic human behavior or bypass basic protections.
Najira Khanom
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Yes, it is possible; there are many ways to reduce it. Already I have seen many of us share it. I never get a 100% success rate for this, and I still have concerns about this.
I started my first wordpress blog last month and already seeing tons of bot traffic messing up my stats. Really hope someone here knows how to deal with this.