Any way to limit the G's bot visits?

Is there a way I can limit Google's bot visits?

Now it hits me every 5 seconds and causes quite good usage on my account

Thanks

 

This will pass, probably just doing some deeplinking

 

this has been going on for the last month so it does not pass

my server crashes from time to time because of it

 

Im sure you can tell gbot to visit less often if you use sitemaps

 

If you have a sitemaps account with google you can go into the options and request a slow crawl rate.

 

Googlebot supports the crawl-delay tag if I'm not mistaken:

User-agent: googlebot
Crawl-delay: 180

Code (robots.txt):

 

Could this work?
<meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

 

it's not the revisit rate that bothers me just the new pages visiting
the site now has 170 000 pages in G and it ads more and more

 

Go here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Once you take ownership of your site, you can tell Google what crawlrate to use: Slow, Normal, Fast (if they enable it for you).

 

the verification is out of order
i will try with the crawl delay

 

Personally, I like it when the Googlebot visits. It can visit as many times as it wants, even drink my beer, sleep with my wife, whatever!

 

The easiest way is to access the sitemaps feature as mentioned before...

 

seems like this would be the only was as the bot does not even read my robots file and does not delay the visits

I hope the verification will be back working soon

Added:
so verification is back. let's see if the setting realy works

the interesting thing is the message I got when changed the rate to slow:

This site is currently set at a Slower crawl rate. This rate will return to Normal on Apr 11, 2007.

I do not want it to return to normal. Why would they do it auto?

 

by anchor text google will visited our site

 

I stand corrected - I found this page on Matt's site http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/googlebot-keep-out/ where he specifically states that Googlebot does not support the crawl-delay command. I'm not the only person who was fooled though - http://slashdot.org/robots.txt

 

the sitemaps option did not make things better
now Gogglebot is on the site every 2-3 seconds
any more ideas how to limit the bot without banning it?

 

I have tried to search a lot for the solution for this problem. Have the same problem with my sites and i have still not found any solution. If anyone has an solution that would be greatly appriciated.

 

Is this possibly linked to Matt Cutts stating that the cache for supplemental index would be updated more frequently?

I feel it could be a related issue and that the main googlebot would observe the slower crawl rate requested through webmaster tools/google sitemap - but the supplemental bot isn't paying attention to the request?

Without knowing much, it is a possibility.