Direct Direct, High Bounce Rate, Unique IPs

Spam

[firestarterseo]

One website I work with has had a significant increase in direct (not set) visits and the bounce rate is nearly 100%. Apparently this is bot/spam traffic. The traffic cannot be be identified by IPs because they are coming from all unique IPs. The browsers are unique, although slightly higher visits come through IE.

My question is: is there are way to actually block this traffic? I don't just want to filter it out of analytics and I am not sure if it is worth it to block each IP because they are unique and wont really stop the problem....

[Leosghost]

You would be better advised to post such a question here..
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[lucy24]

post such a question here.

That may not work. You mentioned analytics, which points to the urgent question: Are they really visiting your site, or are they merely requesting the analytics code? If it's third-party analytics such as google, there is nothing you can do to stop them; you can only ignore them. If it's something like piwik that lives on your own server, then they should be easily blockable just like any other unwanted visit.

because they are unique

Sure-- but no IP is an island. You need to find out whether they come from server farms or from infected human browsers. But only if they're really visiting your site.