What are all these [bot] hits to my site ?

[akash1]

What are all these [bot] hits to my site ?

[WoodsPainting]

Use caution. Blocking all bots (User-agent: *) from your entire site (Disallow: /) will get your site de-indexed from legitimate search engines. Also, note that bad bots will likely ignore your robots.txt file, so you may want to block their user-agent with an .htaccess file.

[dennis123]

Hi Friends,
This practice is known as referral spam. It's basically fake referral traffic that is then recorded by your analytics package.

The goal of the spambots is to get Google to treat these entries in your server logs and analytics as legitimate traffic and create backlinks to the offending website, thus boosting that site's SEO.

It isn't known for certain if this even works, as I would imagine that Google's Algorithm is smart enough to catch this and wipe out any perceived benefits.

You can prevent these entries in your analytics by creating filters that essentially ignore "visits" from these fake sources.

[chetna]

Bot traffic is essentially non-human traffic to a website. Bot traffic is the result of software applications running automated tasks.

[pharmasecure]

Internet bots or web robots are automated to visit premium websites; and appear as targetable humans (audience). Some bots perform repetitive tasks like copying, ad clicking, posting comments, or anything malware-causing. Data has it that almost 29% of a website traffic is bot traffic.