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Should I ban Yahoo Slurp ?

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Hairston

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Jul 01, 2008, 05:14:30 PM

I seen this article today

http://www.searchnewz.com/blog/talk/sn-6-20080701YahooSlurpgetsBannedbyWebmasters.html

it says most webmasters are banning Yahoo spiders from their sites. Is this something I should do ?

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Jul 02, 2008, 09:28:45 PM

I guess if you're really worried about bandwidth I might suggest using the robots.txt to ban Yahoo Slurp. Yahoo's engines do eat up a lot of bandwidth (especially on forums) and they return very little traffic but every little bit helps IMHO.

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