Taming the Bing bot - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support


the bing bot 1 of worst bots there is. it's generating 1/3 of traffic site (3000 hits on 24 hours), more twice as google bot (1300 hits), though i've set crawl rate bing enormously slow (in webmaster tools in robots.txt). seems crawl delay respected each separate bing server, not whole. bing bot no. 1 come every n seconds, in meantime bing bot no. 2 comes along, bot no. 3 etc.

what i've noticed bing not using sitemap (set osmap), tries use rss feed encounters sitemap. when @ sitemaps in bing webmaster tools, url's ?format=feed show up. if remove these, appear again within days. , bing seems crawl more pages needed.

i've setup bing webmaster tools ignore url parameters 'format', doesn't seem te respect preferences. i've added line robots.txt, ignored too:

code: select all

disallow: /*?*format=


has idea how tame bing bot? i'm not paying hosting provider please bing, since accounts less 1% of referral traffic.






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