Let me know if you find a better way to solve this issue. The last line tells the server to deny request from ‘ bad_bot‘. If you are very particular about the case, then you can use ‘ BrowserMatch‘. Note : Since we’ve used ‘ BrowserMatchNoCase‘, you can specify both the uppercase and lowercase letters. The first line ‘ BrowserMatchNoCase‘ checks the user agent string that contains ‘ WeSEE_Bot‘ and sets an environment variable called ‘ bad_bot‘. For eg., ‘ WeSEE_Bot‘ from ‘ WeSEE_Bot:we_help_monitize_your_site‘. In order to block a bot by a user agent string, look out for a part of the string that’s unique to that robot. htaccess: BrowserMatchNoCase WeSEE_Bot bad_bot The method one – disallowing crawl via robots.txt file (but according to a post at CARA, the bot seems to request robots.txt and continues to crawl the website). There are couple of ways to stop ‘ WeSEE_Bot:we_help_monitize_your_site‘ bot from crawling your website. I also read few forums where many website owners reported similar observation. After googling, I understand that the traffic is being generated by an advertising agency called wesee dot com. For the past couple of days I see something like ‘ WeSEE_Bot:we_help_monitize_your_site‘ in my Google Analytics report which claims to be a Browser and drives hundreds of visits to my site’s homepage.

It took a while for me to understand and stop those unwanted traffic from eating my server resources. It’s been a month of traffic from Bad bots – yes, recently my website received thousands of impressions from a bad referral website called clictune.

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