Do you really need a Bot detection agency to detect and block bots for your website? Are they really effective or just a FUD? Find the answer yourself. Here are 5 things that you should know about the bot detection services that claim to improve a website’s revenue by detecting and blocking bots.

1. You should know about
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2. What is a Bot?
Bots are web crawling spiders that make up
about 40% of the traffic on the internet.
They traverse through pages on the web looking
for data they were programmed to find.
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3. Who uses these Bots?
Search engines like Google and Bing rely on the
same bots to help the web users find
required information.
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4. Who are
They are the companies that claim to
improve a website’s revenue by detecting
and blocking bots.
Bot Detection Agencies ?
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5. What should you know?
1. It’s an unnecessary service
2. It will affect your SEO rankings
3. They cannot block 100% bots
4. You are investing money
5. Most of them are a FUD
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6. It’s unnecessary
You don’t have to be a technical person to block
bots on your website.
It’s a simple and straightforward process.
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7. How to Do it yourself?
All you have to do is create a disallow rule
for crawlers in your robots.txt file.
By adding this rule, you are telling the bots
not to crawl your website and most bots on
the web respect this.
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8. What about the Bad Bots?
It is possible that the bad bots will ignore
your robots.txt rule and still crawl your site.
But as you know they’re the bad
guys, they would find their way to
crawl your site even if you set up
bot-blocking mechanism.
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9. It affects SEO
Bots actually help you reach out to your
audience by increasing the visibility of your
offerings on the web.
Blocking bots altogether using a bot detection
agency would be a terrible mistake.
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10. It affects SEO
Bots look for new sites to add to their index and
help people discover it.
Bots operated by countless website stats sites &
blog directories help in boosting your web
presence.
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11. They cannot block
Yes, that’s true.
Even bot detection services cannot block all the
bots from your website.
3. 100% of bots
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12. They cannot block
Bots that use encryption algorithm a.k.a. Bad
Bots cannot be detected and hence cannot be
blocked.
So what’s the real need of a bot detection
service?
100% of bots
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13. Investing Money
You are paying for a service that is not needed
in the first place.
You can block the bots yourself as mentioned
previously.
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14. Investing Money
You can invest the same amount in something
useful that will actually benefit your business.
OR
You can simply save this unnecessary cost.
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15. They are a FUD
They try to instill an amplified fear in your
mind about bots, so that they can sell you this
bot-detection service which is something you
don’t really need.
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16. They are a FUD
This marketing strategy is known as a FUD
(fear, uncertainty, doubt) and is used to
spread misinformation so as to make a
business out of it.
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17. Takeaway
Bots are an indispensable part of the world
wide web.
Blocking them is not the ideal option
considering that the end result would be
ineffective as they don't obey the rules.
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18. Takeaway
Since bots contribute to a major share of the
exposure that your website gets, blocking them
could lead your business on a downhill road.
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19. Stay Safe,
Do try it yourself at home,
office or anywhere.
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20. Thank
YOU
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