Man, this is awful.
So I did a lot of reading and come to find out there are bots out there that will actually ruin you because they set off clicks. I've spent all morning working on my Robots.txt to try to block them and many of them simply ignore it.
One of the worst offenders is Aspiegel PetalBot. That's the Chinese one that is screwing everybody up. I've blocked it in Robots.txt and they ignore it. I created a firewall rule in Cloudflare and so far they're ignoring that too.
Going back and looking at the data, I saw I got two clicks from Nigeria for 14 cents. Yeah, that's bogus as hell. I tell you, you have to be an absolute rocket scientist to get anything done these days.
So I did a lot of reading and come to find out there are bots out there that will actually ruin you because they set off clicks. I've spent all morning working on my Robots.txt to try to block them and many of them simply ignore it.
One of the worst offenders is Aspiegel PetalBot. That's the Chinese one that is screwing everybody up. I've blocked it in Robots.txt and they ignore it. I created a firewall rule in Cloudflare and so far they're ignoring that too.
Going back and looking at the data, I saw I got two clicks from Nigeria for 14 cents. Yeah, that's bogus as hell. I tell you, you have to be an absolute rocket scientist to get anything done these days.