Click Buddha’s Bot Detection system intelligently distinguishes between legitimate (good) bots and malicious (bad) bots to protect your website and ad campaigns without disrupting essential traffic.
🟢 Good Bots (Allowed / Safe)
These are authorized crawlers and automation tools that perform legitimate tasks.
Click Buddha automatically recognizes and excludes them from blocking actions.
Examples include:
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Googlebot – used for Google Search indexing
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Bing bot, Yahoo Slurp, DuckDuckGo Bot – search engine crawlers
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Uptime monitoring bots – e.g., Pingdom, Uptime Robot
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Social media preview bots – e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn crawlers
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Ad verification bots – legitimate tracking from Google Ads or analytics tools
✅ Click Buddha does not block these unless they behave abnormally or flood your site.
🔴 Bad Bots (Detected / Blocked)
These bots are designed to harm or manipulate your website, ads, or analytics.
ClickBuddha detects and blocks them based on behavior, IP reputation, and traffic patterns.
Common examples:
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Click Bots – repeatedly clicking ads to drain budgets
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Scrapers – stealing content or data from your website
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Spam Bots – submitting fake leads, forms, or comments
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Automation Scripts – performing fake interactions to skew data
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Proxy/VPN Bots – masking IPs to bypass blocking or imitate users
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Data Center Bots – automated servers posing as users
🚫 These are automatically detected, flagged, or blocked depending on your chosen detection mode (Standard or Advanced).
⚙️ Smart Classification
Click Buddha uses:
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Behavioral analysis (time on site, mouse movements, form patterns)
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Network intelligence (VPN, proxy, and data center detection)
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Machine learning models to improve detection accuracy over time.
✅ Tip:
You can view the detected bot type and source under:
Dashboard → Bot Activity Details.