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CTR Surge is a module inside Botlord Platform. Install and activate the platform first, then configure this engine.

Campaign setup and task types

Search, direct, warmup, and AI Agent tasks — and how keyword groups and the campaign builder work.

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Search tasks and session shape

A search task is the standard CTR session: navigate to the engine → type keyword → wait for results → optional SERP exploration → click target → dwell on site → browse internal pages → exit. Every campaign starts here.

Configure dwell time in milliseconds (min and max — the bot randomises within the range). 15,000–90,000 ms is typical for organic traffic. Under 5,000 ms looks like a bounce; over 120,000 ms is unnecessary for most use cases.

Pages to visit sets how many internal links the bot follows after clicking. Setting this to 2–4 makes sessions look like engaged readers rather than immediate bounces.

Campaign builder showing session shape settings
Campaign builder — configure dwell time, pages to visit, and session behaviour.
Campaign tasks list panel
Campaign tasks — view and manage the task queue for running sessions.

Direct tasks

Direct tasks skip the search engine entirely and navigate straight to a URL. The bot lands on your target page and behaves normally — dwell, scroll, internal navigation — without coming from a SERP.

Use direct tasks to send referral-style traffic to a landing page, warm up a URL before a CTR campaign, or supplement organic click sessions with direct visits. They count as a visit in analytics but do not register as SERP-driven traffic.

Direct tasks support the same dwell, pages-to-visit, and bounce rate settings as search tasks. They also respect your schedule window and profile strategy — a direct task on a Trusted Identities profile uses an aged profile the same way a search task would.

Warmup tasks

Warmup tasks run normal browsing sessions to age a browser profile before it does any CTR or search work. The bot visits content sites, reads articles, and navigates organically — no ad clicks, no keyword searches.

Templates define what kind of browsing happens during warmup: Casual (general news and lifestyle), Researcher (long-form articles and documentation), Shopping (product pages and comparisons), Mobile (mobile viewport, swipe-style navigation), Brand Boost (brand name searches and brand pages).

In Trusted Identities profile mode, warmup slots are reserved automatically — new profiles run warmup sessions for several days before the platform considers them eligible for CTR work. You control the duration via the warmup_days setting.

Warmup task configuration panel with template selector
Warmup task config — select template type and duration before CTR sessions start.
Task types overview showing Search, Direct, Warmup, and AI Agent options
Task types — all available task types in the campaign builder.

AI Agent tasks

AI Agent tasks are selected in the campaign builder as the task type — they replace the fixed search route with a fully autonomous session driven by a natural-language prompt you write.

Example: 'You are a marketing consultant researching SEO tools. Search Google for the best SEO platforms for agencies, read a couple of results, then find a sponsored listing and click it like you are evaluating the product for a client.' The AI plans and executes a unique session each time based on your prompt.

Use AI Agent tasks when you want varied, realistic sessions that are hard to detect as scripted. Each run produces a different path through the page — different scroll depth, different dwell, different internal links followed.

Requires an AI provider API key configured in the AI tab. See the AI features section in Advanced options for provider recommendations and cost guidance.

Task types overview showing Search, Direct, Warmup, and AI Agent options
Task types panel — select AI Agent to run prompt-driven autonomous sessions.

Schedule windows

Set a start hour and end hour to restrict when workers run. The bot pauses outside the window and resumes automatically when it opens. Overnight windows are supported — start 22, end 6 runs from 10pm to 6am.

Enable specific weekdays to mirror real organic traffic patterns. A common setup is Monday–Friday, 8am to midnight. Set campaign start and end dates for time-bounded runs — workers stop automatically on the end date.

Keyword groups

Keyword groups let you organise campaigns by topic or priority with independent settings per group. Each group can have its own dwell range, bounce rate, domain filter, and task list.

Workers pick the next group from the queue. Keyword weighting controls how often a group is picked — a group with weight 3 is picked three times as often as a group with weight 1.

Use groups to isolate high-value keywords from brand terms, or to test different session shapes on the same campaign.

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