The Power of Effective Bot Management

Bots make up a significant portion of your website traffic (sometimes up to 60%!), but chances are, you don't really know what they are all doing there. You may welcome search engine bots and partner bots, but many bots are designed for malicious purposes. For example, some bots scrape content, inventory and pricing in an effort to divert potential customers to another website or undercut prices. And even the bots you welcome can be too aggressive or interfere with site performance is they arrive at an inopportune time. In this infographic, you'll learn:

  1. What bots are and how they impact business objectives and website performance
  2. The four common types of bots
  3. Why blocking bots doesn’t work
  4. How a bot manager identifies beneficial and malicious bots
  5. Bot management essentials

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Free Guide to Bot Management

Although mitigation and blocking bots are seen as quick methods of resolving issues with malicious bots, it’s only temporary. Managing bots is a long-lasting approach and involves using a potent bot management system.

In our guide, Manage, Don’t Mitigate: What You Need to Know About Bots and Scrapers, you’ll learn how bot management works and how you can better manage the long-term business and IT impact from bots. Just fill out the form to receive your free copy.