

Ad Fraud: Bot traffic will visit the advertisement present on your application and affect the ad clicks, which will affect the cost of the advertisement.DDS Attacks: Bot traffic will attack the application which will create huge traffic and take your site down with a Denial of Service attack.Spam Bots: Bot traffic can be used for spamming any webpage or cloud application with various comments or unwanted traffic.The 4 most common bad bot attacks used on WordPress sites are: Why does your organization need a Reverse Proxy to secure WordPress websites and cloud applications to prevent bot traffic? In this blog, we will see the common bot traffic attacks on WordPress sites, and how we can prevent bot traffic attacks. An increase in Bot Traffic leads to an increase in website traffic, which leads to an increase in false data, false data is of no use to any company. So if you observe anomalies (generally spikes) in your web traffic, your site might be a target of a traffic bot attack. Traffic bots can create an abnormally high bounce rate, abnormally high and low session views, generate a huge amount of traffic on the site, false account generation and many more such consequences to bot traffic attacks. They usually find a way, by using open backdoors of a website or gaining access to a less-protected network to target the site.


These traffic bots are crawling every website they can find, and cause some serious SEO damage to websites. Bot Traffic on websites has been increasing for small or large businesses globally.
