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Got hit by a wave of bot attacks from China this week, and I didn’t even notice it at first. 🚨😩
Luckily, fixed it with 3 simple steps on Vercel 👇
Step 1: Go to your Vercel Dashboard → Project → Firewall → Bot Management Turn ON both Bot Protection & AI Bot Protection.
Step 2: Open your Vercel Logs and check which user agents/IPs are spamming your site. You’ll often spot requests that return 429 (Too Many Requests) => those are your culprits. Create a Custom Rule in Bot Management and DENY those User Agents/IPs.
Step 3: Add BotID to your code → Vercel BotID Docs
After doing these, all spam traffic instantly got blocked. Bots-free site ✅
For full screenshots and step-by-step visuals, check out my post on X.
