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Why do insurance and banking domains send bot traffic to my site?


I know how to detect and filter bot traffic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows why I am seeing tons of bot traffic from insurance and banking domains? E.g., bankofamerica.com, allstate.com and others are hitting my site upwards of 100 times per day. Note that I am talking about domain associated with the user's IP, not the traffic referral domain.

The site is a large ecommerce retailer and the banking and insurance bot traffic started after it moved to the Demandware ecommerce platform.


Solution

  • Turns out this was caused by bots spoofing legitimate domains