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Limit crawl frequency of the new MSNbot

If you occasionally get high traffic from MSNBot, you can specify a Crawl delay parameter in the robots.txt file to specify how often, in seconds, MSNBot can access your site. To do this, add this syntax to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 120

msnbot is the name of the bot

120 is the delay in seconds.

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Article Id: 157 - Version: 2 - Created: 29-11-1999 - Last Updated: 29-11-1999 - Hits: 767 
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Chuck Gelm
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.17
I use crawl-delay: 32767 I have 12 pages and this permits Yahoo-slurp to refresh my pages about twice a week.

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