Hello friends, bots have swarmed a site I recently set up. I blocked the ones appearing as domains via Analytics and .htaccess. However, there are hits coming directly without any referrer from countries like the US, Russia, and India, and they leave as soon as they enter. This has pushed the bounce rate above 95%.
What do you think can be done about this?
For Nginx
https://mertcangokgoz.com/nginxde-spam-referrer-trafigi-yasaklama/
For Apache and Litespeed
https://mertcangokgoz.com/spam-sitelerin-tamamen-yasaklanma-islemi/
I shared the current lists above, add the ones you missed. I strongly recommend switching to Cloudflare later, this way direct access will be blocked as well.
Despite blocking the domain via .htaccess and the IP via cPanel, the address howtostopreferralspam.eu keeps appearing.