ok, but where do you limit the slurps?
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ok, but where do you limit the slurps?
In robots.txt, for example, look in http://tntu.net/robots.txt
You may want to try 60 for a few days, then 120, the only thing that reduced 30-40 slurp agents to the current 9 was using a crawl delay of 240.Code:User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 240
I'll start with a delay of 60. Let's see what happens.
uh oh... yahoo slurp presence decreased, but today I couldn't see googlebot not google adsense crawling.
Plus, the sitemap stats are showing that googlebot indexed just 4 pages in the last 24 hours, from an average of 45K.
I'll remove that line.
Edit: Google Webmaster says:
I believe that my robots.txt was the reason.We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.