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How can I tell if my visitors are click bots or real visitors? (11)

12-10-2013 02:30 PM #1 coolnerd (Member)
How can I tell if my visitors are click bots or real visitors?

I'm running a banner on JuicyAds. I get a good number of clicks, but is there are any way for me to find out if the visitors are click bots or real people? Juicy Ads is notorious for click bots. I'm not spending a lot of money on Juicy Ads, but I don't want to waste money for nothing.

12-10-2013 03:14 PM #2 getzlaf15 (Member)

You could lookup some of the ips. See who owns the ip address's.

12-10-2013 03:28 PM #3 coolnerd (Member)

What do click bot IPs look like?

12-10-2013 03:39 PM #4 kyleirwin (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by coolnerd View Post
What do click bot IPs look like?
They have IPs outside of your targeted countries, they're owned by hosting companies rather than residential ISPs.

Bots also have different browsing behaviors. They often won't load page assets, sometimes they'll hit robots.txt before hitting your page, they can identify themselves with a User-Agent that doesn't belong to a consumer browser.

That's only the tip of the iceberg though. Many bots do things like browsing through proxies, using headless browsers which load the page just like a normal user, and sending false User-Agents to avoid being detected. It's a constant cat and mouse game. GL.

12-10-2013 08:33 PM #5 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Quote Originally Posted by coolnerd View Post
What do click bot IPs look like?
The easiest thing would be to look for the same IPs hitting your page multiple times.

You can do it on the visitors tab or write a simple sql query to give you the exact number an IP hit your page in the last month.

12-11-2013 02:55 PM #6 coolnerd (Member)

Thanks.

01-15-2014 11:23 PM #7 georgiecasey (Member)

way i'd do it is try and load a URL with a unique code specific to the IP, on the landing page with javascript. if it's not loaded, you can pretty much assume it's a bot. very few real users disable javascript, most of the web is unusable without it.

01-15-2014 11:42 PM #8 kyleirwin (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by georgiecasey View Post
way i'd do it is try and load a URL with a unique code specific to the IP, on the landing page with javascript. if it's not loaded, you can pretty much assume it's a bot. very few real users disable javascript, most of the web is unusable without it.
It'll stop the dumb bots, but many of them are based on headless browsers now-a-days... which execute JS flawlessly.

01-16-2014 01:13 AM #9 georgiecasey (Member)

well ya learn something new everyday. i always wondered why nobody had yet coded something like that. just never knew the term.

there's me still using my php/curl scripts for scraping like a caveman

01-16-2014 01:29 AM #10 gritz (Member)

I think the best thing you could do is tweak your headlines and CTA's… real humans react differently to headline1 vs headline2. Use your best headline and a headline like "THE HEADLINE GOES HERE"... if your LP CTR stays the same, you can assume it's a bot.

01-16-2014 07:45 PM #11 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Yep it's been very tough lately with the headless browsers. No real way to tell it's not a human.

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