Bandwith Drain!

Hello there,

I love vBSEO.

Yahoo has gobbled down 11 gigs of transfer so far this month...with no outlook of stopping. Yahoo is returning 4k worth of visitors.

Google has swallowed 2 gigs of transfer so far...which is fine they are returning 11k worth of visitors.

I think it's a bit much...but is this normal? I don't mind paying an extra few dollars for the bandwidth as long as the results continue.

Anyone else issues with this or suggestions?

I would say its ok...

since imo google is more used then Yahoo... but thats my opinion.

That's alot of bandwidth. Are you hosting multi-media or large images? Do you have a huge store of attachments?

450MB in attachments

suppose you could make it so vbseo doesnt list your attachments, or setup some kinda hotlinking script for attachments...

You could set-up your attachments so that they are non-visible to guests.

Or you could set-up your attachment CRUs to be contained in a virtual sub-folder, and then block that sub-folder with robots.txt.

Joe, could you explain that a bit more?

I prefer to prevent guests from viewing attachments. This keeps other sites from hotlinking to any of them on your site. Just edit the permissions for your Unregistered / Not Logged In usergroup and change the Can View Attachments to No.

I disabled attachments like suggested...it has slowed down some but not much.
I looked in awstats, 20 gb not being not viewed. I think itm ight be the sitemap.

You can also go to Google Webmaster Central

sign up, and once you get your domain entered, you can change the crawl rate for googlebot.

Googlebot isn't the issue. After looking through the logs.....here is what I rethought

I added my sitemap to notify yahoo. I wanted more hits from yahoo, as they are still a undervalued resource I think. Why yahoo is drinking bandwith so fast...I don't know.

My hits have gone up 5k this month so far. Is the extra $25 worth the "targeted" traffic...I would think so..jury is still out.

This month so far yahoo has taken 6 gb of transfer and google has taken 5gb.

the extra vistors I have been getting great! it shouldn't be taken that much bandwith IMO

any other thoughts?

check on your web stats, see what files are taking most the bandwidth..

Better to reduce the requests from yahoo. Your pages will get indexed just as well but you'll save on bandwith.

here's how: How can I reduce the number of requests you make on my web site? - Yahoo! Search

May I was getting 60k hits a month...now I am getting 115k..and the month hasn't ended..I'm using close to 100GB of bandwith. 50 for actual users and the rest is going to the bots...and I am using the bots.txt...

there has to be a way to keep the hits...but not the bandwith waste.