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Old 08-05-2009, 04:27 PM  
Basic_man
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
I just thought of a sticky tape and bandaids solution to the crawl-delay issue... since Googlebot appears to fetch sequentially, why not just add a delay yourself?

if (strpos($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"], " Googlebot/") > 0) sleep(2);
Why not setup it in the webmasters area from Google directly...?? It's free and a valid solid solution...
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