Sorry, almost forgot the previous night when I was posting about slowing down Yahoo Slurp, that the same technique applies to MSNBot as well. The only difference is a different name (bot name) User-agent definition. User-Agent: msnbot Crawl-Delay: 10 The above 2 lines in robots.txt file will instruct MSN Bot to delay new request by [...]
Some people are screaming that Yahoo Slurp is overloading their web site and eating too much resources, including bandwidth. In order to back off Slurp bot with custom delay between each requests (frequency), you can use robots.txt file and place it in your web site root directory, for example http://www.httpblog.com/robots.txt The following robots.txt setup will [...]
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