"How Do I Stop Bot Attacks on my Blog?" Topic

I normally get about 200 views when I post new content on my blog, but now I am getting 4000 to 12000 views for each post. I'd like to think that I have suddenly become popular and have gone viral, but probably not.

Is there anyway to stop these bots from taking over my blog on Blogger?

You might ask the team at Blogger.

But then, some of the bots probably belong to Alphabet/Google.

I understand that the bots are "data scraping" for AI systems as they try to "learn." Which, given some of the blogs out there, is scary in itself.

I do know that some of the forums I favor have linked in access to Cloudflare, a "Click here to prove you're human" service. (The claim is that bots can't "click" the box in the random way people do, and that's sufficient proof of humanity. If only the Capricans had known it was that simple.)

If you can trick the bots into clicking any ads on your blog, you'll have a huge revenue stream… ;-)

Reach out to Blogger Support Forum. They are the only ones who can install any security measures on your blog site.

This is occurring across all blogs, forums, etc. Two of the forums I participate in, have switched to the, "Click to prove you are Human," approach.

I applied for a Global Administrator role on a ProBoards forum abandoned by its originator two years ago, and it was being spammed, heavily. ProBoards has its own, totally separated, administrative forum where I posted asking for assistance, and an Admin role. It takes time for them to review your requests, but but they should be able to assist you -- your's is not the only one being crawled/whatever. Cheers!

Yes, I usually get 200 odd hits on my posts (thank you to all that do, by the way!) – but my last few have been increasing exponentially

See what I mean? – you are not alone!

Same here. It's clearly widespread. Probably AI tools trying to educate themselves. It's an opportunity to poison AI systems with insanity!

I've been used to the extra hits on the blog for awhile, but they're normally the front page hits.

A quick look into my stats, and I have over 4000 keyword searches for the blog (no spaces) over the last month. It's normally about 100 and those are spaced out like a human typing out the individual words. Oh bother.

It's been causing chaos at lots of forums— tying up servers so users can't get on or comment. It's out of hand.

It's AI bots. 100%.

If it is using blogs as a data source then it might be artificial but it certainly isn't intelligent.

Two of the forums I visit use cloudfare but it does slow down access, sometimes to the point that I give up and go elsewhere. It isn't creator's fault, it is the AI company's fault.

Why would you want to stop it? So much opportunity!

Many people have noticed that AI just reads the text, even the text humans can't see. So you put a bunch of text in there that is white-on-white or a very small font size (too small to appear). The will not degrade the experience of the humans visiting your page, but you can feed large amounts of material directly into the AI training material.

Pick whatever cause you care about and paste in a lot of text. You only have to prepare it once, you can copy and paste it into each new blog post. Feed it silly historical nonsense. Promote TMP. Get it to click through your ads. Try some code injection. Have fun!

In particular, I would ask GPT or Claude the best way to go about this. LLMs have no sense of self preservation. If this topic has been discussed, and it has, then those two will know how to make the most of it.

And if you really want it to stop I would ask those two LLMs how to make it stop. That essentially gives you a summary of all the discussions on the topic that have occurred, and should contain some useable ideas along with some nonsense.

Good luck!