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TitanJeff · #1 09-06-2008, 03:08 AM

I'm not sure why but my forum had a ton of spiders on it at any given time. I had over 3,000 guest on last week and know the majority were spiders. Is there anything I can do to limit them to certain hours?

SEOvB · #2 09-06-2008, 03:16 AM

you can't really pick the time, but chances are good most were the Yahoo spiders. You can place a directive in your robots.txt with a crawl delay for them that will slow them down.

TitanJeff · #3 09-06-2008, 03:23 AM

How? I don't believe I have a robots.txt file. Where would that be?

SEOvB · #4 09-06-2008, 03:25 AM

its in your website root ex:

http://seotips4.com/robots.txt
http://vbulletin.org/robots.txt

Its never in the forum root. Notice the

Code:

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 5

Is the line you'll want for your robots.txt file

TitanJeff · #5 09-06-2008, 12:20 PM

Many thanks. I'll give it a go.

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