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diddlydazz - 11:12 am on Mar 9, 2005 (gmt 0)
We have been hit on mature ( > 4 years ) sites, with traffic down to 2% on some sites. (all sites white hat educational, tons of unique content, IBLs from radio stations, newspapers, universities, libraries, etc) In our situation it made more sense to ban Googlebot completely, all Gbot is doing for us at the moment is taking bandwidth and giving nothing in return. The silence from Google on this subject is what prompted us to take (what some may call over zealous) drastic action. we have left some sites indexable by Gbot so we can see when/if the problem is resolved. There are some very interesting posts in this thread (should be on the WebmasterWorld frontpage in my view). Dazz
Great Thread!