You should try your best to avoid allowing bots onto your website. Everyone tells you this, but why? Bots mess up your server data. These bots, that visit as quickly as they leave, impact your SEO results on Google as well. Bots visit for a variety of reasons. Some visit to link your website to theirs, some are looking for fresh posts. If your web host charges by the visit, you are ultimately paying for these bots to spam you. Sometimes, bots won't mess up your analytics data and will only show up on your server logs, but sometimes the bots do impact your google analytics, and severely skew them.
Bot visits become a part of your Google Analytics history. The only way to get rid of these hits to your account when looking back is by using filters. Going forward though, you can now filter them out. By going into your reporting view settings, you will find a box at the bottom that says bot filtering: exclude all hits from known bots and spiders. There are services that you can subscribe to that filter out bots and let you see these lists as well, but even though you don't see the lists on Google Analytics, do you really need to? This Google Analytics option is free, a no-brainer, and is the best way to make sure that you are getting
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