Sudden Spike in Chinese Traffic

[chubes]

At the start of this month, I noticed an RPM drop on my site while traffic remained stable. I thought this was because I switched to WordPress multisite, so I reached out to Mediavine.

As it turns out, there has been a sudden spike in traffic to my site from China and Singapore. It is all direct, desktop traffic with very low engagement time.

Currently, Singapore is the city sending the most traffic to my site. Shanghai is in the top 10.

Mediavine rep said they have noticed this happening with a few sites lately, and have been looking into it on their end.

Anybody experiencing something similar on their sites? How are you planning to deal with it?

I am wondering whether to block the countries entirely. Or to find out the exact source and plug it there.

 

[Darth]

BOTS are currently just going absolutely mental, crawling and ingesting everything they can via AI. It's insane. It's the same thing everywhere, and others have spoken about it too.

 

[chubes]

BOTS are currently just going absolutely mental, crawling and ingesting everything they can via AI. It's insane. It's the same thing everywhere, and others have spoken about it too.

So is the move block them or serve them markdown content? Haha

I want as many AIs to read my shit as possible but not if it's just pure spam that will fuck with my advertisers.