Today, I’ve had a massive ‘bot visit’ now for 1 hour - with several of hundreds hits to /bot-traffic.icu - which of course does not exist. They seem to come from a source with the same name (bot-traffic.icu). I know others have had the same issue with the same bot and also with trafficbot.live. I…

Hi @PureTime You’re absolutely correct in that there’s no server side way to block bots or visitors based on their website of origin. However Blockade does offer that functionality on the client side. We do a reverse DNS lookup on each IP address and run it by your blocked websites list. If the I…

We’ve been hit hard by bots too. It’s really unfortunate Shopify won’t offer better protection from this attack unless you go Shopify Plus, which is only viable for larger businesses. Hopefully someone at Shopify will have pity in the small business…fingers crossed.

Yeah we’re getting hit at check out. Not so much with the indexing issue. But thanks for the comment.

I’m no authority on bots, but them hitting you checkout page could have serious connotations for security. I’m surprised Shopify is not helping more on this, have you googled the IP to see if they are not just bots from the card merchants checking you out ?

I haven’t googled the IP but Shopify shows IP’s and one we checked was 2000 miles away lol. Yeah the inventory gets immediately pulled out of stock and added to cart and then ordered. It happened in under 2 minutes today and we had to manually cancel a bunch of sales and take the product offline. Sh…

Found This : https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/l9hx93/bottrafficicu/ Seems you can block it in Google Analytics Hope this helps ?

Yeah that might be for those ppl that get the Bot comments and auto-fills on forms. Ours has to do with product grabbing and making actual orders. Thanks though for chatting. Appreciate it!

Any update? Did you find any solution? Are you still receiving bots visits? It’s strange that to me the visits doesn’t appear in Google Analytics.

I’ve had the same problem with my inventory, and wondered what was going on? My marketing company figured out a couple of months ago that I had a “bot” problem, and they have been working overtime to help me. This has been a nightmare, as my sales have dropped drastically. I reached out to Shopify t…

How can I effectively block bot traffic on my website?

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Mad_Modeler February 12, 2021, 8:51pm 4

Normally you would add the IP to your Robots.txt but I;m not sure how to do that in Shopify.

There is the added problem that bots now can be set to ignore Robots.txt anyway

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