How to stop your website from being downloaded by robots?

To Stop a ROBOT?

[zoligirls]

Hello i own a couple of main stream websites my largest problem is that i have members using robots to download the entire site in a few hours . Thats not a problem but i update every week and they dont know how to use the downloader, they end up downloading the whole site again . It uses a lot of bandwith when you have at leat 4.6 gigs of content on your site.
Please Help need to know how to stop Robot downloads
Warmest regards Zoli.

[wkitty42]

start with these...

A Close to perfect .htaccess ban list [webmasterworld.com]
A Close to perfect .htaccess ban list - Part 2 [webmasterworld.com]

if you can't get anywhere with them, ask in the Website Technologies forum under Tracking and Logging...

[zoligirls]

Thank you for your help i have gone and installed the script after a long reading session so now i wait and see .
Warmest regards Zoli.