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A DigitalPoint Forums member is concerned about the heavy crawling performed by the Googlebot. He claims that Google is crawling 3GB of data from his site a month and wants to reduce this as it's a bit excessive in his opinion.
This is possible and can be done through the Google Webmaster Central Tools. . Click on the Tools button on the left hand navigation and then choose "Crawl Rate." You'll get a screen like this:
If you want to reduce the crawl delay, you can do so here. Google advises you that if you want to use a slower rate, it will be valid for 90 days. If, after that time, Google determines that it is crawling your site too slowly, it will present the webmaster with a recommendation about crawling the site at a faster rate (or the webmaster can continue having the site crawled at the slower rate).
Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums.
This post was written on September 25th and was scheduled for publication on September 27.
Comments:
lovekills_s
09/28/2007 10:15 am
Umm.. nice info..But I have around 14 sites in my dashboard, there is not even a single site which has the faster option available.. What actually could be the factors that would enable it? Would be glad if you could blog on them as well
Tefts
02/09/2009 12:50 am
Is there any way to control multiple domain names for one site?
Shannon Kimber
05/21/2010 10:02 am
I Agree. I have recently discovered that google bot has been staking 300Mb+ images daily. and I'm over it.. I didn't authorize my stuff to be stolen and placed outside my website.