mhansen - 1:49 pm on Dec 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

What response do you give to those banned IP addresses?

We return a 403.

If googlebot doesn't specifically come from a banned IP, how will it even know it's banned?

I'm not sure on this, but the way I assume many of these are found are through the toolbar.

- Googlebot sees a 100k page, 26 links, 6 images, etc
- Visitor A Toolbar, Sees a 100k page, with 26 links, and 6 images, etc
- Visitor B Toolbar, Sees a 2k page, no images, no links, no content.

Just a guess though...

MH