ShieldSquare is now Radware Bot Manager
ShieldSquare is now Radware Bot Manager
Form spamming is the act of abusing Web forms by posting unsolicited messages or spam on websites or mobile applications. Form spam affects community forums, social network sites, and online businesses, such as real estate portals, classifieds, job portals, and other sites with forms. They hinder genuine user interactions, hijack conversations, and generate fake leads.
Businesses that make use of forms to collect leads are impacted by fake registrations from spambots. These fake registrations result in poor conversions.
Advertisers that use your website or Web app for genuine leads will be disappointed and leave as they will not be able to gain ROI. This will directly impact your website’s revenue.
Malicious bots spam your website’s comments section and hijack threads on blogs and forums. These bots frustrate genuine users by posting malicious website links, phishing links and downloadable malware that steal personal information.
New and regular users of your website will get irritated by such bot activity and may even stop visiting your site altogether, affecting your brand reputation and revenue.
Unwanted bot traffic can slow down your site and increase bandwidth costs. When millions of bots spam your website and mobile application with requests, they take a lot more time to load content for real users.
Slow pages frustrate users. Moreover, search engines may remove or demote pages with bot-generated spam.
Form spam frustrates advertisers and genuine users. This affects your brand image as your users may choose to go to competitors’ websites. All in all, form spam impacts the credibility of your business, and eventually hurts user retention.
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