Traffic filters and quality score
Flag or block bots, scripts, datacenter traffic and click abusers — and what the quality score means.
Every click is checked against six filters. For each one you choose what happens when it matches — per link, per rotator, or for everything at once.
Nothing, Flag or Block
| Mode | What happens |
|---|---|
| Nothing | The filter is ignored. |
| Flag | The click is marked filtered (FCL) but still redirected normally. |
| Block | The click is marked filtered and blocked (BCL) and sent to the Blocked Url — or a 404 if none is set. |
The filters
| Filter | Matches when |
|---|---|
| Spider | A search-engine crawler: Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandex, Baidu, DuckDuckBot, Applebot and similar. Blocked by default. |
| Server | A script or tool rather than a browser (curl, python-requests, Postman…) or any other bot. |
| Datacenter | The IP belongs to a hosting provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH or Hetzner. |
| Anonymous Proxy | Datacenter traffic that also sends no browser language — a typical sign of a proxy. |
| Abuser | 30 or more clicks from the same IP within one minute. |
| IP/HOSTS Manager | The IP is on your workspace block list. See Block or allow IPs. |
Blocked clicks are still recorded, so you can see what was stopped. They never count as unique and never use up a cap.
The quality score (QIQ)
Each click also gets a quality score from 0 to 100. It starts at 100 and drops for every filter that matches — a lot for crawlers and blocked IPs, less for datacenter or proxy traffic. The QIQ column is the share of clicks scoring 50 or more.
On rotators you can use it directly: a rotator URL’s Min QIQ keeps low-quality visitors away from that URL.
Apply filters to all links at once
Open User ProfileFiltering.
Choose a mode for each filter and, optionally, a Blocked URL.
Click Apply to ALL existing Links or Apply to ALL existing Rotators.
Tick “No Change” next to the Blocked URL to leave it as it is on each link.
Still have questions? Email the support team and we will help you get it working.
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