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Facebook ads bot traffic

Hey,

After advertising my project on Facebook I keep getting some weird traffic.

The project is avocadojobs.com (job application tracker for developers) and I launched two ad campaigns, one on the SF Bay Area and one on major Asian cities, both targeting software people. Unfortunately, there were unsuccessful as I only got one new signup from around 1k visits per day. This is traffic that persists even today, after a week has passed from the campaigns' end, and my question is what is this traffic.

It seems most of them are VPSes from AWS and Digital Ocean. I learned that after running geoip queries from a small sample of their IPs and seeing their ISP.

Anybody with similar experience or further knowledge on the matter?

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    bump

    Would like to hear/learn more about this mysterious traffic.

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      It seems it's almost 70-80% from Digital Oceans IPs. They just hit the index, almost every minute. Sometimes IPs reappear. I don't have any more info, I'm open to more analysis techniques if you have anything in mind.

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        Maybe it would be fun to lookup what ports they have open.
        Would you mind sharing some of those IPs?

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      This made me think you're linking to a post that talks in more detail about the weird traffic.

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    I suspected a similar thing on one of my FB campaigns for the likes I got. I haven't experienced the traffic stuff yet. I am not 100% sure but I will avoid them for the foreseeable future now.