I'm running Apache 2 and a large part of our page views come from bots. Most of those are legitimate ones such as Google and Bing. I want to parse the logs and get accurate statistics as to how many human visitors I get, so I've temporarily updated robots.txt to ban bots on all pages. I know this is only partially effective at preventing bot access, but I'm OK with that.How will disallowing bots affect users searching for this site? Will it prevent users from finding the page on Google?
Will banning bots make a site harder to find on search engines?
web crawlers;robots.txt
Banning bots will not let any search engine get the content of the site.  Ultimately you will not rank for any keywords. It would be next to impossible to find your page on Google. You might get referral traffic but no organic traffic. Note: Robots.txt does not ban bots but ask them not to index  and crawl the site. Which major search engine bot like Google, Yahoo & Bing follow. 