[LARTC] Search engines

[LARTC] Search engines

[Sjaak Nabuurs]

Hi

Does anyone have expirience or advice and set me on the wright track if it
is usefull to slowdown search engine spiders.
I want to limit some spider how eating lott's of bandwith from my server.
Is it possible and a good idea to do this with TC and what would be the
wright script.



With thanks in advance


Sjaak Nabuurs


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Re: [LARTC] Search engines

[Peteris Krumins]

Hello Sjaak,

Monday, December 29, 2003, 5:10:51 PM, you wrote:

SN> Hi

SN> Does anyone have expirience or advice and set me on the wright track if it
SN> is usefull to slowdown search engine spiders.
SN> I want to limit some spider how eating lott's of bandwith from my server.
SN> Is it possible and a good idea to do this with TC and what would be the
SN> wright script.

It is a bad idea.
Read about Internet Robots and the special robots.txt file.

Put these lines in your webroot, 'robots.txt' file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

It will disallow all robots who implement 'robots.txt'.


P.Krumins

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