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How to Detect Real Visitors From Bots?

by Chloe Brooks
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Hi Warriors
I am running google analytics and I cant find anywhere where you can see the difference between real humans and bots? I guess this is not available? If not what is the solution then? How can I be able to track the difference. I am using hostgator and from awstats they cannot see that either?

For any suggestion I would be grateful on how to track this?

Thanks
Chloe
#bots #detect #real #visitors
  • Profile picture of the author ozduc
    I am not sure if this will do exactly what you want but there is a service at clicktale.com that gives you a video of every visit to your site and even shows their mouse movements over the site.
    There is a free option that gives you 100 views a week and then you can upgrade if you want more.
    I recently paid for an email blast service that was supposedly sending targeted prospects in the niche to my site but turned out to be bots to get clicks on my site. I was able to see that the clicks resulted in no movement of the mouse on my site and the average hit time was a few seconds. Armed with this information I quickly requested a refund.
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  • Profile picture of the author zxcvbad
    Yes Clicktale is a pretty usefull at this kind of issues.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Nguyen
      Originally Posted by zxcvbad View Post

      Yes Clicktale is a pretty usefull at this kind of issues.
      That looks pretty good. And there's also a free option, but I think I would rather just go with GA for higher amount of visitors.
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      • Profile picture of the author All Night Cafe
        I hope most posts will follow. I would like to see
        some more information on this subject.

        Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author ozduc
        Originally Posted by Peter Nguyen View Post

        That looks pretty good. And there's also a free option, but I think I would rather just go with GA for higher amount of visitors.
        You can still have google analytics on your site as well as clicktale.
        GA only tells you where the traffic comes from but you dont know if it's real or a bot.
        At least with clicktale you can see a video of what the visitor did while on your site. Moose movements, filling out opt ins etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author multimastery
    Isn't upgraded version of clicktale a whopping $99 per month?
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  • Profile picture of the author serendipitous1
    I like bitly tracking as it shows me where my visitors are coming from...If there's a ton of different locations where your hits originate from then more likely than not, they are real people landing on your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author tomtommarketing
    check the ips. If they repeat and the majority is from non-North America, I would say it is bot traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author EmpowerNetwork2013
    You could also check your stats to see how long the people stay on your page. If its all the same, short amount of time most likely its Bot traffic,.
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  • Profile picture of the author workoutstuff1
    If the site is on WordPress, you can get a plugin that requires the person have an avatar. Bots tend to not use an avatar when they post.
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    • Profile picture of the author gdi4life
      Originally Posted by workoutstuff1 View Post

      If the site is on WordPress, you can get a plugin that requires the person have an avatar. Bots tend to not use an avatar when they post.
      Interesting.. I'm going to have to check that out as my wordpress blog is regularly flooded with spam comments.
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