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503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

[proboscis]

Hello,

Googlebot is indexing several pages of my site with this for the title and description:

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Service Temporarily Unavailable. The FutureQuest SRC (Spider Rate Control) module will refuse your requests for the next 2.00 seconds. ...

Needless to say my traffic has plummeted, who would click on that?

Anyway, if I write to Google they will slow Googlebot down and the problem will almost completely go away (this has happened before).

My question is: If I ask Googlebot to slow down will it affect my traffic or rankings in any way?

Thanks in advance!