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How do you block or filter out bots hitting your site?

My hits been extremely high the past 2 days I'm guessing due to bots (bots from twitter, if you use twitter you know what I mean) hitting it.
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you can't, bots use regular people's IP's. usually they are normal people's infected computer's.. there's no way you can restrict these IP's but still allow real people to access, there's no way to tell the difference. '' ' ' ' '
 
Your question is a little vague, but if you mean excluding robots from your html website, then exclude them in the robots.txt file. You need to know the user-agent and put it in the file with the directory subtree you want the robot to ignore. This can be / for everything. Malicious bots ignore the robots.txt, and sometimes the only way to stop them is to block their IP address or something like that. The proxied ones can be extremely hard to stop without some custom code.
 
if you know the bot name, you can filter it, if you use wordpress try using Chennai Central to save bandwidth and add the bot name you want to filter.
 
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