googlebot = guest

[bentong]

and it is killing my bandwidth..should I block Gbot? :confused:

[Design Agent]

Yeah, block it :p

100% it does nothing anyway!

hehe

Dont.

[INV]

That would a terrible idea! I mean aren't you trying to get search engine traffic as well?

[Design Agent]

That would a terrible idea! I mean aren't you trying to get search engine traffic as well?

Yeah, thats what Msnbot and slurp are there for ;)


ha

If you block them you stop your pages being crawled, if you stop your pages bbeing crawled you stop the traffic from the SEs

[bentong]

is this has something to do with the style im using? the template is from phpbb-design.com..

[GuyFromChicago]

is this has something to do with the style im using? the template is from phpbb-design.com..

Could just be a deep crawl. Most likely has nothing to do with the template/style.

[bentong]

based on stats:
11 visits and the bw usage is now 10.06 Megabytes.

is this just normal?

[GuyFromChicago]

based on stats:
11 visits and the bw usage is now 10.06 Megabytes.

is this just normal?

Doesn't seem unusual to me.

[Design Agent]

Its fine. You WANT Googlebot to crawl you as much as possible. Bandwidth is not that expensive.

[bentong]

Im just wonderin' since the site is just a week old and I dont think googlebot already found the site..

[INV]

Google found my new website in 24 hours. It's all normal, you shouldnt worry about bandwidth as it's dirt cheap and I don't think its eating that much for you to worry about.

[bentong]

thanks for the info..:)

[yfs1]

And 10 Meg is nothing...I don't think I have any sites under a gig.

My more popular sites regularly use more then 10 gig but they obvioulsy pay for themselves.

Let Google have the run of the house ;)