URL shortened URLs hit by bots.what to do?

[born2run]

HI so I use bitly url shortener to shorten my urls on my site. However just today I noticed that each of the shortened bitly links were showing huge number of hits which are way above normal daily activity.

What should I do to stop this bot traffic? I don't have access to access-logs for now. Thanks!

[not2easy]

If you don't know where the bots are coming from or what UA bots these are I don't see any way on earth to prevent the traffic. If the links are available to the public, they are available to bot traffic. You would need to identify the bots to deal with what they are allowed to do.

_{(How is this a Social Media Marketing question and not a Search Engine Spider and User Agent Identification question?)}

[tangor]

Is it only your social media links which are affected?

[lucy24]

each of the shortened bitly links were showing huge number of hits which are way above normal daily activity.

What should I do to stop this bot traffic? I don't have access to access-logs for now.

If you don't have access to logs, how do you know what URLs are getting hits?

[born2run]

So basically these were all coming from singapore as per Bitly analytics. For now since I don’t have the ips I put a challenge on the firewall for sg problem solved for now