excellent post Sparrow for those of us that are unknowledgable in this area.
But now that you’ve shown us what to look for to spot a fraud by bot … what will it look like if it was a real person?
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+MyIE2
and then it would also have something like …. +Java script + images + blah + blah
ran out of examples there at the end, but you get the idea.
so then would it be incorrect to say that probably the best way to spot these bots is that they would be most likely to not ever ask for image files because they are usually the bigger files and would slow down the process thus the reason they don’t ask for them?
my backwards way of spotting bots was if all the traffic would not show any time spent on my site; or that nobody clicked thru to another page.
But in the end its like Randy said; if I didn’t get some decent players out of the campaign then I’d simply not advertise there anymore.