small seo question

hey.

I have an active website, however googlebot seems to be around permenantly. I often have 10-15 googlebots around at once recrawling my site. Now, I'm not too sure why they come back everyday, but they're sucking up my bandwidth like crazy horses! So far, in the 8 days of this month since I last checked the logs they've used about 300Mb of bandwidth (which doesn't sound too much, but the actual users have only used about 50Mb).

What's the easiest way to ask them politely to just visit say, once every 3 days maximum? I'm using php scripts btw with dynamic content, but is there a meta tag to do this (I think there is)... Is this a good idea?

Thanks...

http://www.seochat.com/

maybe it's someone using a fake referrer url? Do you have content that people might want to grab?

Moved.

no not really, they're just forums...

I'm getting lots of different crawlerx.google.com I think, resolving to ips belonging to google... I'm just always under attach...

isn't there a robots revisit meta tag? will that work in this instance?

<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days" /> is the 1 your talking about - change the days to whatever

<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW" /> this might be useful read up about this as it can be used to stop the spiders going through every page of your site

but not all engines stick to these rules - I think i saw the tags that google recognises somewhere on their site

if you don't want your forum get indexed, just use robots.txt, otherwise, you should think about invest more bandwidth