There are a number of bots used online.
The four most common types are:
- Search engine bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, Yahoobot)
- Commercial bots (Ahrefsbot, Semrushbot, Alexa)
- Feed Fetchers (Facebook mobile, Twitter, Feedburner)
- Monitoring Bots (WordPress, Uptimer)
All of these bots power different applications and make them more useful for users. These are called ‘good‘ bots.
But there are also ‘bad‘ bots out there. These bots do nasty things like:
- Credential stuffing
- Content scraping
- Spam traffic
They can also use up tons of your server bandwidth and cause a lot of havoc on your site.
