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Bots and botnets are commonly associated with cybercriminals stealing data, identities, credit card numbers and worse. But bots can also serve good purposes. Separating good bots from bad can also make a big difference in how you protect your company’s website and ensure that that your site gets the Internet traffic it deserves. Most good bots are essentially crawlers sent out from the world’s biggest web sites to index content for their search engines and social media platforms. You WANT those bots to visit you. They bring you more business! Shutting them down as part of strategy to block bad bots is a losing strategy. Here, in reverse order of how likely they are to visit any web site, are the 10 most important good bots that you should know about now. Make sure your security strategy welcomes these bots (or at least know why you chose to block them)! 1. Googlebot  :- Googlebot is Google’s web crawling bot (sometimes also called a “spider”). Googlebot uses an algori...

Bots, spiders or web crawlers are heavily used by search engines to figure out how high to display websites in  search results . For instance, seeing how many high quality websites are linking to your website is one of the many important ranking factors bots can track. Bots discover new web pages to visit or “crawl” by  following links . Once a new webpage is discovered, details about the content and its relationship to other content is recorded. Bots also often revisit the same places to check for updates. In the case of search engines , this data is collected in an index. Search engines serve relevant search results quickly by keeping an up to date index full of notes about which websites have relevant content on different topics. The use of bots also allow websites to automatically pull in information from other websites. This process is called web scraping. Courtesy: https://raventools.com/marketing-glossary/b...