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Recently I had an application become the victim of bot spam. Since the web is something on the order of 60% bot traffic, many of these are inconsequential and can safely be blocked. I chose to block them based on user agent, since many of these bots have a range of IP addresses they can utilize. Here is a list of the bots I was able to block from several application, with out impacting SEO. Not all of these bots will be right to block for every application. The top listed one, “^$” is the regex for an empty string. I do not allow bots to access the pages unless they identify with a user-agent, I found most often the only things hitting my these applications with out a user agent were security tools gone rogue. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71