Bot management is the practice of identifying and controlling automated traffic to your website. It is used to distinguish between beneficial bots, such as search engine crawlers, and malicious bots that can negatively impact your site.

Malicious bots can be used for content scraping, credential-stuffing attacks, and other activities that compromise security, skew analytics data, and degrade performance. An effective bot management strategy allows beneficial automated traffic while blocking these malicious activities.

Bot Management Articles

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This collection of articles will guide you through the various facets of bot management, from foundational concepts to practical, hands-on techniques.

Bots and their Impact
Bots are automated programs that can help or harm your site. Learn what bots are, how they work, and how to tell the good from the bad.
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Rate-Limiting
Control traffic and stop bad bots with rate-limiting. Learn how to limit request volume to protect your site from attacks and improve performance.
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Troubleshooting bot access issues
Search bots blocked? Troubleshoot `robots.txt` issues & CSF IP blocks (ModSecurity). Guide: check perms, unblock IPs & whitelist trusted bots.
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What Are Webcrawlers and robots.txt?
Web crawlers populate search engine databases, indexing websites for search results. They vary in behavior and pace. The robots.txt file guides them, indicating where not to scan and how quickly to crawl the site.
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