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Thread ID: 72120 2006-08-31 00:26:00 Googlebot taking up 1.8Gb Bw and other searchbot queries Morgenmuffel (187) Press F1
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481552 2006-08-31 06:25:00 . webmasterworld . com/forum23/4556 . htm" target="_blank">www . webmasterworld . com


the CPanel interface says we have used over than 5 gigs just for this month! this site is a phpbb forum . i know about the trouble that the bot can run when crawling forums, but is this normal?

Sounds like you're serving session ID's up with your URL's . That would be the first thing to check .

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. webmasterworld . com/forum30/30268 . htm" target="_blank">www . webmasterworld . com the reader asked google to stop hitting them so hard . Google agreed, now the bot never visits at all :)

June 26: (me to Google) "Please stop it . "
June 28: (Google to me) "We've reduced the load on your servers"
July 3: (me to Google) "Your bots now do not crawl my site at all . "
July 6: (Google to me) "we see no cause for concern at this time"


IMO, we can trust that Googlebot has good behavior in crawling the World Wide Web . In rare occasion it may run wild but I would not bother in asking Google to slow the bots down as it is more prudent to have it fixing itself in natural way . In all cases, overloading is only temporarily in a very short term and things then return normal . No hassle .

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netchicken (4843)
481553 2006-08-31 06:32:00 Nigel > I will send you that file back latter on tonight :) stu161204 (123)
481554 2006-09-02 00:13:00 Nigel > I have sent you back that file :) stu161204 (123)
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