LARTC - Dec 2003 - Search engines

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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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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