How To Exclude Bots From Analytics Data?

[AWCthreads]

How do I exclude what I presume to be bots from Analytics data?

For example, Microsoft Corp is showing 632 visits during the last month.

Pages per visit: 1. Visit duration: 0:00. New Visits: 100%.  Bounce rate: 100%.

I'd block the IP address with a filter but how do I determine the proper IP address to block?

[DarinPirkey]

You can do this with .htaccess but I can't possibly explain it better then this article does. http://www.affiliatebeginnersguide.com/articles/block_bots.html

[mememax]

I think that IP filters are the only way to go. If you want to be sure that those visits are bots you should look into your logfiles and see if they come from the same ip and in which time range (if they're all in a couple of minutes for example). If you don't want to add that much filters you can put a forbidden rule in your htaccess so whenever that ip tries to visit your website you'll be returning a 403 in that way the visit won't be tracked. Beware of doing this kind of things because if there are users in the middle of that ip range you'll be affecting their experience too.