Recently I set up a new tool to try and reduce the annoyance factor of “bad bots”. To this end I set up a bot trap on Best Exercise Bikes based on the code in use at http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/
Any IP address that falls into the bot-trap now gets banned from not only Best Exercise Bikes but also from every other partner website on my server including the newest sites Best Coffee Machines and Best Steppers. The log of banned IP addresses is publicly available here: spammers.