eli5 how website traffic bots work? Do they actually visit the website? And how does Google find out if you are using one?
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When you click a link, you send a request to a server to ask it to deliver the website. All a bot does is automate that process so it happens automatically instead of a click in a web browser being required.
This can be detected if there are too many requests from the same location in too fast a pace. As a human it is impossible to click links faster than a certain rate. So, things that are particularly fast are probably bots.
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