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How Often To Check Robots.txt?

         

devitnow

5:53 pm on Jun 1, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Hi All,

Last summer I got beat up a bit (and rightly so) in this thread because my robot wasn't yet checking robots.txt file.

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I shelved the project for a bit, it's back and I now have my crawler first checking robots.txt for permission.

I want to make robots.txt visits separate from the crawl. What's the norm for how long I can appropriately cache the permissions found in a site's robots.txt?

thanks - jeff

g1smd

7:28 pm on Jun 1, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Less than 24 hours would be ideal.