Filter Robots does not work

Make sure you have click tracking mode set to Extended in the options.

I have mode set to Extended Tracking, filter robots option is checked too, from last 2 weeks google bots from IP starting from 34.* and 35.* they click on affiliate links every day.

I think i have experienced the same issue, here. I am trying to not see every single link show as clicked when it’s either the robots only or: does this occur when one link is clicked, then all of the others get processed by the robots?

I’m not fully familiar with the robot process, but I’d like to see of wp fan1 above my comment and myself are the only ones with this confusion (on robots not filtering.)

I am not even sure it’s this setting I want. However, it probably is because I hit all of those settings before i even saw this thread, and nothing seemed to change.

Thanks. I’m open to this being user error, but so far … I’m not persuaded. ?? Help us out! thanks; great plugin.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by discdemo.

The option doesn’t prevent bots from following the links, but it should hide their clicks from the reports.

Thanks. But, how can we troubleshoot if it doesn’t? For example, whenever someone apparently clicks one of my links, i get multiple reports at that same point of all of my links in that text field, for instance.

In other words, if I’m using a link in a youtube video, the reporting shows all of my links, which I believe are also listed in this video.

So, in my reporting, I get a long list of pretty links and I cannot even know which link was clicked.

I’m still checking my settings but right now, i have the filter on and extended. Thanks.

by the way, i just checked some of my other sites and those are set to not filter robots and in normal mode. those appear to be doing fine.

However, I am not sure if it’s because there are no other pretty links in the same text box. Look fwd to your reply on this and recent. Much appreciated!

@discdemo what do you mean by “in the same textbox”? Can you explain that a bit more as I’m unsure what you mean by that, thanks!

Sure. I have noticed that when I include multiple pretty links within a specific textbox (e.g. a youtube description), I get the whole list of links in the report; fractions of a second apart (or seconds apart, maybe).

Does this help? Thx again.