UPDATE: Using a new method on post #3. Unfortunately, I could not get this method to work, surely I did something wrong. Leaving the post up though, maybe it can be of help or maybe someone else can find the flaw or improve upon it?

Hey all,

100% adapted from the original.

NEW: Zero (!) Load Time Bot Tester For Your Live Campaigns

Preamble:

Even though I am relatively new to AM (1 year since kindergarten), I quickly recognized the tremendous human being caurmen was. You could really see it in his eyes and through the tone of his voice, how rewarding and fulfilling it was for him to share his knowledge as altruistically as possible.

I very much resonate with that, and this is just my lame attempt to honor his memory and endless contributions.
Farewell Hugh, hope to see you in the stars someday!

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First step, a quick overview of what we are trying to achieve – A shoutout (and thanks!) to @platinum for the following diagram!

The overal mission:

– Create a script to add to our landers and a specific campaign offer, that detects most bots and sends them away, as we gather stats to better optimize our campaigns.

caurmen;325418:

Features Of This Script

  • Gives you an accurate read on the percentage of common bot traffic clicking your ad links.
  • Effectively zero impact on page load time, meaning you can use it on all campaigns.
  • High accuracy at detecting CURL-based or non-Javascript bots.
  • Won’t trigger false negatives from bots which look for URLs in the page.

Step 1) – Create a Bot Detection Offer – nothing much to it, really.


Step 2) – Creating Landers

For this system to work, you need to create landers that have 2 offers. In this case I did the opposite of @platinum’s diagram, I am using (offer 1 = real) vs (offer 2 = bot detection)

Now, it is very important to understand that the CTA link on your landers is always going to be

http://yourtracker.com/click.php?lp=1

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