# # robots.txt # # excerpt from: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/slurp-03.html # You can add a "Crawl-delay: xx" instruction, where "xx" is a delay value # between successive crawler accesses. If the crawler rate is a problem for # your server, you can set the delay up to 5 or 10... User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 5 # # # excerpt from: http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_FAQ_MSNBotIndexing.htm#D # MSNBot is crawling a site too frequently (back to top) # When MSNBot is crawling your site, it generally does not try to access your site more frequently than one time every # few seconds. If MSNBot determines that your site has a slow connection, it automatically adjusts the frequency. # To specify a minimum frequency (in seconds), use the Crawl-delay parameter in the robots.txt file: User-agent: msnbot Crawl-delay: 5 # User-agent: Googlebot Crawl-delay: 5 # # User-agent: HagenDerRobotMirago Disallow: / User-agent: MagentaNews Disallow: / User-agent: wget Disallow: / User-agent: webzip Disallow: / User-agent: webmirror Disallow: / User-agent: webcopy Disallow: / User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / # User-agent: * Allow: /