M3Server Technical Blog FAQ Adding a crawl delay to robots.txt

Adding a crawl delay to robots.txt



Various search engines and bots will scan your website pages to index them.

This can consume server resources quickly if you have lots of pages.

We recommend adding a crawl to help throttle those bots.


User-agent: SeznamBot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-Delay: 30

Keywords: bots, crawling, indexing

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