How Bat Bots Affect Website SEO?

There are many ways in which bots can have a negative impact on your website SEO. Some of which are given below –

(A) Web Scraping

Scraper bots are primarily programmed to steal content and then duplicate it on other websites. These bots steal the content of your website and create the problem of duplicate content, which worsens the ranking of your website pages in the search engines.

(B) Form Spamming

Form spam bots are created on a website with fake leads to submit forms to make the website work. These bots practice creating thousands of law-quality backlinks for the website, due to which your website can also be blacklisted by google.

(C) Price Scraping

Price scrape bots try to reduce your business by reducing customer visits and conversions on your website. These bots are designed to do price scraping and steal pricing data from the website. These are there to maintain pricing to your competitor.

(D) Skewed Analytics

These bots are created to affect the main website analytics, this creates problems for the IT, Marketing, Analysis team. Mostly these votes affect the big business websites, whose analytics report is spoiled and they drop their business with wrong metrics.

(E) Automated Attacks

These bots are made to perform various types of auto attacks, they pose a serious web security risk to the website brand. Because of them, the search traffic of blogs falls and the website faces problems like account takeover, credential stuffing and inventory exhaustion.