On the hosting or server, add a white landing page that will be shown to bots / moderators.

Recommended domain requirements:

It is recommended to use one subject for white and black pages as well.

1. Go to the Sources section.

2. Click + New.

3. Enter the name of your source in the search field, click the Add button.

4. If your source is not listed, click Create custom template.

5. Save the traffic source by clicking the New traffic source button. More about Traffic Source.

1. Go to the Campaigns tab.

2. Click + New.

While creating a campaign choose Campaign Type as Website Protection.

Paste in the field the address of the site for which you are configuring protection.

Give a name to your campaign in this field. You can also choose a text colour for the campaign name you entered.

Select a country from the drop-down menu. The country you select will be shown in your campaign name.

Choose a group for the campaign. It’s convenient to group campaigns by verticals, countries, type of traffic. To create a new group, go to Settings - Groups.

Select the traffic source from the drop-down menu that you have previously created in the Sources tab.

Specify the cost model you use to buy traffic in the Cost type section. CPC - cost per click. CPM - cost per mille (thousand clicks). CPA - cost per action. The cost of a click will be assigned after conversion. RevShare - the cost model which is calculated as a percentage of a conversion revenue. Choose the Auto option if the cost can be passed from the traffic source automatically.
Set the cost value and currency in the Number of cost section.

While working with a traffic source, a certain percentage of traffic can be lost on the way to the tracker. It may vary significantly depending on the country. With PeerClick you can set the traffic loss percentage for each campaign.
Use the following formula to calculate traffic loss: new cpc = cpc / ( 1 - ( losses / 100 ) )

Select a multi-user to give access to your campaign if needed.

You can add tags to the campaign to make your search more convenient.

A specified time period in seconds after which a click on your tracking link/pixel is considered unique again.

Cookies lifetime period. After the period specified in seconds, postback pixel and click-through from the landing page to the offer stop working. Setting a cookie lifetime to 0 will disable the storage of cookies, the postback pixel or click-throughs from lander to offer will not function.

Even if you have not checked any metrics for bots in the field below, PeerClick does an internal check for the bot (Bots and spies metric). Disable this check if you need a well-defined custom blacklist.

Check the necessary filters for traffic marking. More about metrics below.

! Validation against the Bots and spies rule is enabled by default, regardless of whether the checkbox for this rule is selected or not. Disabling this rule is possible only if all standard checking are disabled.

Configure additional rules that define traffic as bot traffic.

The most important thing in configuring Website Protection is to determine which traffic is considered bot traffic. The more precisely you define your target audience, the more detailed the rules that make up your custom blacklist, the more secure your website will be and the longer it will last. For example, if your traffic goes to the United States, add a rule that determines visits from all others countries as bots.

Depending on where the bot should direct, select the mark:

- Without: intended to replace content. The user and the bot will be shown the same page, but different parts of it. The white page section will show the bot, the user will see the section with the content. Sections can be any number.

Available only for Website Protection PHP mode.

- To rule: redirecting traffic to distribution rules.

- To URL: redirecting traffic to the specified URL.

19. Click the Create / Create and close button.

After creating a campaign, go to editing it in the Website Protection section.

Choose your installation option:

- PHP script: less likely to break through, but more difficult to configure. For advanced users who know how to work with code. PHP mode setup.

- JavaScript Pixel: Easy setup in a few steps for beginners. JS mode setup.

To pause a campaign, click the green icon to the left of the campaign name. The icon will change color to red. To unpause a campaign, click on the red icon so it turns green again.

Facebook, Google, Yandex - Databases of bots and moderators of the most popular traffic sources.

Library robots, Bots and spies - Other traffic sources (VK, Mail Target, etc.). Library robots - list of bots by user agent, Bots and spies - list of bots by IP.

! Validation against the Bots and spies rule is enabled by default, regardless of whether the checkbox for this rule is selected or not. Disabling this rule is possible only if all standard checking are disabled.

IPv6 Traffic - Traffic using Internet Protocol Version 6. This technology is poorly distributed in the CIS, but widespread in India.

VPN - Traffic using an encrypted VPN connection.

Proxy - Traffic using a proxy connection.

Data centers - Data storage and processing centers.

Without referer - Traffic received without data about the URL of the request source. Most likely it indicates a click not on the ad, but on the link directly.

Unrecognized device - Traffic recieved without data about the user device.

Without useragent - Traffic with an unrecognized user agent.

Unsupported OS version - Unrecognized versions of operating systems.

Based on tests of various filters for your traffic, identify the most productive configuration for you.

Using all filters will most reliably protect your traffic, but it can reduce the amount of traffic. For example, some sites deliberately overwrite the referer, or employees of large companies can use work PCs, and their IP addresses will refer to data centers that you disabled by applying the data center filter.