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One of the most common questions we get is: “How do I turn on bot filtering?” The short answer: You don’t. It’s already on. At Lynkbee, we believe security shouldn’t be a setting you have to remember to toggle. It should be the default. Our Zero-Config Bot Protection is “Always On” for every link created on our platform. From the moment you create a short link, our algorithms are actively analyzing traffic to distinguish between human users and automated scripts.

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How it assists you

  1. Cleaner Analytics: We automatically segregate bot traffic from your main dashboard view, ensuring your click-through rates (CTR) and geographic data reflect real human engagement.
  2. Infrastructure Protection: We prevent bots from hammering your destination URLs, saving your server resources.

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”Good Bots” vs. “Bad Bots”

We’re smart enough to know the difference.
  • Allowed: We let through essential “good bots” like search engine crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot) and social media preview fetchers (Twitterbot, Facebot). This ensures your SEO ranking and link previews work perfectly.
  • Blocked/Flagged: We aggressively flag scrapers, click farms, and malicious automated tools that skew your data or threaten your security.

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Do I need custom rules?

For 99% of users, the automatic protection is all you need. However, if you have specific restrictions, you can use our Redirect Rules to strictly control who sees your content. Example: If you only want to allow traffic from mobile devices in France, you can create a rule that sends everyone else to a different page. This acts as a manual layer of protection on top of our automated systems.