Episerver and Bot Management

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Websites can have a sizable number of bots which can contribute to a large number of page views in analytics. This article provides information on mitigation of bots on the site.

Episerver does not have a documented 3rd party Bot detection tool that unequivocally can be recommended and supported.  Bot Detection can be done programmatically as seen in example below:


How do I detect bots programatically

The discussion moves towards a smart Robots.txt and we have some Episerver ones available through a handler and can be integrated and used through the interface. 


Episerver Robots Handlers
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